Re: Team sports/ being a fan.
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I don't get it. How can anyone be a fan of a team.? It's ever revolving. Changes made every year. I can (somewhat) see being a "fan" of a person. I do , Clint Eastwood but a team, I just cant fathom it. There is an outdoors forum based on North Dakota I'm on. It's almost mandatory to bash a Minnesota coming There to hunt/fish but most seem to LOVE our Vikings So, why do some have an infatuation with a (team)? I'm 100% with you , I just don't get it .......at all My brother in-law loves college football ...... .isn't college a school where players leave afterwards and most never make it proYup that is one of the greatest appeals of college sports.
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Re: Team sports/ being a fan.
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Interesting topic. It’s just something you grow up with. I’m from Georgia so therefore I’m a BullDawgs fan. I don’t care for professional sports, although I have to keep up with the Braves to be able to talk with my Mom and Dad, lol! Yes, team rosters change, but the fan base remains. I was a Georgia fan in elementary school and I’m a Georgia fan now. I’ll be a Georgia fan until I die. What most will find strange is I root for Alabama just so Georgia and Alabaman can play together for the SEC Championship. I want to see the BEST team win. If Georgia isn’t in it and Alabama is, then I’m pulling for Bama. In all the Bowl games that have an SEC team that play, I’m pulling for them as well…unless their state starts with an “F” I’ll never root for a “F” team no matter what! My children were raised Georgia fans and now they’re raising my Granddaughter to be a Georgia fan, lol!!!
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Re: Team sports/ being a fan.
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Now Hoss, I agree with you completely , and of course most are referring to the normal popular sports seen on TV all the time. Howevah. You and I DO like the horse sports...think of all the bullfighters who put those other athletes to shame in sheer brave agility in the bull ring....the horse events . I include them all, from the Steeplechase, to dressage and cross-country racing, endurance, all of them . Those are a "horse of a different colah " that are great and fun for me to see
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Re: Team sports/ being a fan.
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X3 I haven't watched a sports event in over 50 years. Can't imagine wasting time and resources on guys whose collective intellect isn't high enough to tie their shoes.[/quote] If your shoes were tied, you would know that in most sports it takes a very high intellect to understand the game at the level it's played in college and pros. Maybe you need someone like payton Manning or a defensive back to explain to you how intricate the game actually is and why most leaders of the offense and defense are very high IQ people.
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Re: Team sports/ being a fan.
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Interesting thought. If you replaced the word, "team" with political party, there are many similarities here. Why do people vote the way they do.....tradition, family ties, you grew up in an environment that supported one side or another, etc. A team has many players working together (usually) to accomplish a task just like a political party has many "players" working together to accomplish something. From a broad view, there are lots of parallels with sports and politics. Maybe that's why people get so fired up about sports, teams, and politics? Sort of... I guess. Except one is a game and the other has far reaching impacts on my day-to-day life. If the Sooners lose, my taxes don't go up and my 2A rights aren't up for grabs. Thank God. Mike
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Re: Team sports/ being a fan.
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Re: Team sports/ being a fan.
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X3 I haven't watched a sports event in over 50 years. Can't imagine wasting time and resources on guys whose collective intellect isn't high enough to tie their shoes.
If your shoes were tied, you would know that in most sports it takes a very high intellect to understand the game at the level it's played in college and pros. Maybe you need someone like payton Manning or a defensive back to explain to you how intricate the game actually is and why most leaders of the offense and defense are very high IQ people. [/quote] Sure it does ! A bunch of guys who together can't form a complete sentence.
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Re: Team sports/ being a fan.
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It is one of the main reasons I always hunted, fished and trapped alone. I have to be back at noon to watch the game did not work well with my plans. I never ask them to go again. I never understood how some one would give up hunting, fishing or trapping to go watch a game. I have never watched a complete football or basketball game in my life.
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Re: Team sports/ being a fan.
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Interesting thought. If you replaced the word, "team" with political party, there are many similarities here. Why do people vote the way they do.....tradition, family ties, you grew up in an environment that supported one side or another, etc. A team has many players working together (usually) to accomplish a task just like a political party has many "players" working together to accomplish something. From a broad view, there are lots of parallels with sports and politics. Maybe that's why people get so fired up about sports, teams, and politics? Sort of... I guess. Except one is a game and the other has far reaching impacts on my day-to-day life. If the Sooners lose, my taxes don't go up and my 2A rights aren't up for grabs. Thank God. Mike I stopped watching/listening to the games this year.
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Re: Team sports/ being a fan.
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If everyone wanted to do the same things there wouldn't be enough room for everybody. Variety is the spice of life. To each his own. Etc.
Life ain't supposed to be easy.
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Re: Team sports/ being a fan.
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And any human who can't understand that can't call themselves a man. X2 lol. I don't watch them anymore, tradition my butt lol. Those that play now imo have taken the tradition out of tradition. They took the class out of class and flat out stole the American apple pie and hotdogs. Ain't worth my time.
I wonder if tap dancers walk into a room, look at the floor, and think, I'd tap that. I wonder about things.....
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