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  • ZachWilsonGOAT [he/him]
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    3 years ago

    made an account just to reply to this lol
    for me it has to do with a few things:

    1. it's awesome to see the most athletic people in the planet doing shit.
    2. it's a lot cooler if you actually practice the sports that you are watching. it gives you a better insight into what is happening and you get a better feeling of how impressive the things that elite athletes are able to pull off.
    3. it fills a competitive urge if you're that type of person.
    4. i think this is the really big one. it's kind of like a TV show, probably a reality show. you have lots of "plot lines", "narratives" and drama. it's a socially accepted way for men to be able to gossip and do traditionally feminine things in a certain way. it also feels like watching a TV show in certain ways as i said before, so you have things like "is Tom Brady the best to ever do it?", "can X team stop sucking/get their first playoff win in Y years", etc.

    obviously those aren't all the reasons why it's cool but they are my main ones i'd say.

    i enjoy american football specifically because of how much depth it has. definitely feels like the sport where coaching and the mental aspect of the game is the most important.
    football (futbol/soccer/whatever) kinda sucks right now because they are trying to monetize every last drop of it and it's making it worse. players are being overworked as hell. another thing that sucks is that because soccer is very much an international sport there's an element of 'sporting imperialism' so to speak where even though South American nations are probably the best at producing quality players in the world their national leagues are pretty bad because all their top talent goes abroad.

    thank you for coming to my ted talk