• EmmaGoldman [she/her, comrade/them]
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    2 years ago

    Nah, football is deeply atomizing and individualistic. It's a "community event" that doesn't bring people together, except in hatred over people from a different neighbourhood with a different team. People don't meet new people at high school football games.

    • 4zi [he/him, comrade/them]
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      2 years ago

      Sports rivalries aren’t “hatred,” and if you grow up in a smaller town than your local highschool football game is very much a community event where you meet friends and meet new people

      • Redbolshevik2 [he/him]
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        2 years ago

        Sports rivalries are just nationalism for minors. It's the first step to getting people to invest in a completely imagined community based on literally nothing.

    • ClimateChangeAnxiety [he/him, they/them]
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      2 years ago

      I disagree. I’ve met a lot of new people at tailgates at the university I work at, and get to see people I already know to. School sports may limit it to just people with kids getting to socialize, but that’s still a useful place for those people.

      • EmmaGoldman [she/her, comrade/them]
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        2 years ago

        Tailgating and :grill:ing outside the event is fine and a cool vibe. Smaller sporting events are fine. Bigass sporting events like this are just not very conducive to socialization.

          • EmmaGoldman [she/her, comrade/them]
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            2 years ago

            Yeah, totally. Enjoy a sports bar or vibe outside. But like, the Bigass loud stadium sport event model is not a place for socialization, and high school football isn't generally televised, and have a much smaller area of influence which results in lesser focus on the peripheral activities like watch parties or tailgating outside. It's just a big bowl people go in to scream for a few hours while kids give eachother traumatic brain injuries, and then people go home and mald at their neighbours because their kids go to the wrong school.