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.
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
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.
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.
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.
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.
Wow ok, I didn’t know Canadian football was a real thing until I read this comment. Here I was thinking Jon Bois invented it: https://www.sbnation.com/2014/8/18/5998715/the-tim-tebow-cfl-chronicles
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.
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
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.
7/10 but add pmc bug eating karens and its a 10/10
Do you have anything in common with these people besides physical location
yes? what do you think a community is?
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.
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.
deleted by creator
All sports teams should be collectively owned by the community they’re based in
deleted by creator
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.
deleted by creator
Sports not bad, football stadium bad.
deleted by creator
I will die on this baseball mound. I'm sorry, and I know it's cringe, but I would rather golf than say American football good.
deleted by creator
Have you tried Canadian football?
deleted by creator
Wow ok, I didn’t know Canadian football was a real thing until I read this comment. Here I was thinking Jon Bois invented it: https://www.sbnation.com/2014/8/18/5998715/the-tim-tebow-cfl-chronicles
deleted by creator
Smaller sports events are fine, but large scale crap like this is just not set up for it. It's too loud and chaotic.
deleted by creator