Yeah yeah let people enjoy things but let me talk my shit please because I am right
Sports as something people participate in and enjoy watching at a local level
Agreed. If sports were a local level thing, I think it would boost and bolster people's connection to the place they live for real. The idea of local athletes is probably good for the soul of a people. Even in urban metro areas, i think it would provide a since of civic pride that has been lost.
Sports as massive corporate gambling enterprises with bootlicking and flaghumping propaganda built right in
Sports would be a lot cooler if each sport wasn't run by two MEGACORPS and some special organization institution. Just about every sport (team or solo) is captured by some group of vampires. From the rules, to the equipment, to the spaces to do the sport, it's always like a cabal of like 3 and a half groups.
Also the gambling thing has made sports worse and has probably hurt regular people a lot but people don't talk about it. I'm not some "vice" shit, but gambling is one of those things people don't really talk about nor is really much care of other than a hotline number (that gets played at the end of a gambling ad). Gambling is far too profitable to really be like public health issue and that kind of just sad.
Finally. No should be paying more than $12 to go see a sports live, also kids should just get in free. Going to see sports is like going to a damn concert these days. Also concerts tickets should not be so high either.
Sports are good and healthy and build up the proletariat. American concussionball is... probably less so. Plus its being wrapped up in Americana gives it some serious demerit points in any sensible measure of value.
Nerd shit being cooked up in here. Sports are so much more than burgerball. Explain why the PRC, USSR, and Cuba value sports so highly, please
Because spprtsball under gommunism is good, soortsball under crapitalism is bad
My favorite part about professional sports is how people are assigned a corporation at birth to be fans of. You're born in Kansas, you are expected root for Kansas City Chiefs incorporated.
Enjoy what you want, I don't care. I just think being a long term fan of a team is weird loyalty to a corporate entity.
How am I being hostile? I was just making a point about people being a fan of teams vs players. Your comment is assuming a ton of things I didn't say
You are the one being hostile. You're going way overboard reading into what I wrote and getting defensive.
My point was that people are sometimes fans of the team more than the players. People will love a particular quarterback until the second they leave the team, then they hate them. It's literally loyalty to the team over the player.
Relax
Nerds here think their anime and videogame slop is somehow better than sports slop.
You were actually referring to “exercise”, so I wish you had said all of this instead.
If you are a burger go check out a local baseball game with friends
You joke, but my stepdad thought that Marx shouted out sports in this quote. It was a truly surreal conversation.
Yes football is played mostly on the weekends, but also takes place during the days of worship of the major religions? Dunno, which is worse...
I'm going to say that the number of games pro athletes have to play per season is fucked up. In the other kind of football, a new tournament for clubs is being introduced in the summer, because you couldn't possibly have players getting the summer off in a non-World Cup/regional tournament year after Champions/Europa League games on top of the already long regular season.
"As flies to wanton boys we are for the gods, they kill us for their sport,"
I do, they tie me down and forcefeed me saurkraut and hold my eyes open and beat me with hammers if i complain. Help me. The sunday packer game is coming soon and i cant handle any more saurkraut
I am just looking forward to after the revolution when sports clubs will not be named boring stuff like "FC [name of city]" but will be named cool stuff like Locomotive, Dynamo, Crankshaft or Huge-Ass Crane
