Team sports/ being a fan.

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)?

Probably just the same reason that some people like John Deere, Chevy, or Rugers. Either you find one you like and stick with or you grew up being a fan because your whole family is a fan and you don’t know any different

First you have to be a fan of something I.e. football, baseball, basketball, college affiliation, etc. Then one usually (except for bandwagoners) gets accustomed to a certain team at an early age. Once that happens, it's over, like family....I can make fun of my team, but you better not! Lol. And yes, like said, things tend to be passed down in the family.

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 pro

Go Cubs!

You don't have to be a fan any sports organization, especially a sports team that is all about making money off you.

There's fans and then there's fanatics. Yuge difference. Like the Tom Brady guys........

Tradition

You're not pulling for the coach, star player but the team through time.

Of course it helps if your team has over a century of excellence like my Crimson Tide.

And any human who can't understand that can't call themselves a man.

Oh brother.

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Seriously. I thought Georgia was the Bulldogs. They're doing very well though.

And Bruins too

8th generation Alabama born and bred. Only here in Georgia because these folks in Atlanta will pay me to trap problems.

I don't understand the sport thing either. I did enjoy the rodeo I took the family to. But At the beginning everyone stood up for the prayer, the flag, and the national anthem.

people are strange....maybe it gives them a feeling of being a 'part' of something. When I was younger I was all in for the jets/knicks/rangers. After I grew up that was the end of that stuff for me.

Looks like 'the tide' is low.....

For me ..it's entertainment...like having some liberal friends on Facebook...lol

I don't support any professional teams. I would much prefer to watch my favorite D2 college or my local high school. Both men's and women's teams. They need me support my than a bunch of millionaires.
I don't understand the fantasy football thing. None of my fantasies include a bunch of big, sweaty guys.

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?

Some people spend all their time to shoot a buck with a big rack, some are happy to shoot a doe from their porch and some don't even hunt.

Apply that to how different people view sports differently.

Yup that is one of the greatest appeals of college sports.

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!!!

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.

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

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.

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

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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Sure it does ! A bunch of guys who together can't form a complete sentence.

The more concussions they get the better their IQ.

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.

Right.....Patrick Mahomes can't think for himself. Just bumbles around out there.

I stopped watching/listening to the games this year.

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.

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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.

Was a teen in the 70's. Played a bunch of ball. How could I not be a Reds fan?

Family. Back in the day grandmother reserved Sundays for church, family dinner and John Elway. Really had no choice in the matter, I was already hunting so much the school would have expelled me if they didn't need my test scores to bring up the averages. Folks appreciated the Sunday afternoon respite from me burning thru shotgun shells and cleaning birds.

Y’all making sets or running lines at night? Or noon? Come on down South and decide do you want to sit in the AC and watch the BullDawgs play or go sit in 90 degree temps for an afternoon deer hunt. I’d be curious to see the results, lol.
Now with that said, all SEC games are recorded regardless of whether I’m gonna watch them live or not. If we play a no name team or someone like SC or Vanderbilt and there’s a dove shoot going on, we just listen on the radio or phones. You’ll know when GA scores by the hollers on the field, lol.
Y’all find it strange someone follows a team, we find it strange folks don’t.

SKOL-looked like a good place to throw it in.

Sharron here is my fav teams! Cody Webster and Dusty Tuckness at Cheyenne Frontier Days.

Those bull riders should use Jersey or Holstein bulls.

They wont buck very often. What you see are often 20 or 30 generations raised solely to buck.

I rode a Holstein steer 20 years ago and it bucked me off quite easily. I would still love to see a dairy bull @ the bull riding competition simply for kicks and giggles.

Agreed!!!

Totally wrong about that.

One thing I love about rodeo, Hoss. You won’t find an effeminate tranny freak within ten miles of those events. Real masculine men , tough but feminine women. The tradition of this country.

Those bullfighters are amazing. In slow motion, I see they have a pattern of interaction with those bulls. It’s all timing based. Like a dance. A definable rhythm with the bulls movements, reading their tendencies with precision. Touching and giving with the motion , not trying to push against it.

What an artful dance. Done by true masculine men at the top of their game, along with the riders and horsemen.

See, those sports are fun !

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Although I guess I can understand how it might be entertaining to some I'll never understand arguing with another fan about "your" team being better or the buying of franchise merchandise (jerseys pennants, hats etc.)

I do enjoy top level MMA events sometimes. Those guys aren't exactly rocket scientists either but there is entertainment value in it for me.