Yeah yeah let people enjoy things but let me talk my shit please because I am right
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
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
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
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
I'd be fine with good faith criticism but stereotyping is unacceptible. It's even more strange to see this on a com dedicated to sports.
Because spprtsball under gommunism is good, soortsball under crapitalism is bad
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.
Thats a fair assesment. I think the american propaganda aspect of it is a smaller part of the experience than it's made out to be. It's a 5 minute anthem that nobody pays attention to anymore. Using flags is global thing. My main issues are with the "support the troops" bullshit they do around the begining sometimes, the sport betting (they don't advertise booze on tv so they shouldn't advertise sports betting), and the prices. The leagues are starting to see sports betting advertising and sponsorships as a massive mistep. The NBA and MLB are looking to end partnerships. I can see the it happening with the NHL and NFL. The military shit will end when the boomers die. The prices will continue to rise cause capitalism.
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.
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.
Is it really weird that I watch sports with dad because it makes us both happy to spend time together watching something we both enjoy? Is it weird that I attend an event with friends from my community? Is it weird that we all attend the sporting event we have the largest common interest in and that is closest to our location? Is it weird that we have developed a fondness to watching that team develop, change, or suceed? No, you are not assigned a corporation at birth. You can choose whatever team or even player you want to follow. If a team plays out of a city you are near it's common to follow them. This is no different than the leagues they have in China. Those leagues are incorporated too btw. I'm not defending capitalism. This is how you run operate massive endeavors like national teams or regional teams that are part of national leagues. It's funny to hear talk of coporate bootlicking when everything is infected by corporations in the US. Sports is no different than video games, tv, or music. You don't appear to have any expertise here, proceed to comment, and then claim you don't care. Then why comment? Why shit on something that makes people happy? If you don't care then why are you being hostile?
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
Don't hide from the implications of your statement. You implied a bootlicker loyalty to a coporation.
I just think being a long term fan of a team is weird loyalty to a corporate entity.
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
Not necessarily, if you're born in the far western part of Kansas it's perfectly acceptable to be beholden to the broncos instead I guess :^).
Warning: be prepared to get more details than you ever wanted to hear about Kansas City.
The smaller part of Kansas city, the Kansas side, is at the very eastern edge of the state. Toward central Kansas it's more expected to root for the college football teams, since no one lives in Kansas hardly and they don't have any NFL teams.
Majority of the population of Kansas City resides in Missouri and the chiefs are based there. Approximately 4x the residents are in Missouri vs Kansas, going by the designated city limits alone and not counting the vast urban sprawl to the east in Missouri.
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With the St Louis Rams moving to California in recent years, it's far more accurate to say that if you are born in Missouri, you are beholden to the corporation of the Kansas City chiefs!
I only do this because I'm sick of people asking me what Kansas is like when I tell them I grew up in KC.
I was refering to every comment or thread about sports turning into a hostile antisports pile on. Not all people that play or enjoy sports are lacking in spirtuality, a bootlicker, or a fool. The stereotyping is pretty cringe considering the propaganda soaked treats being consumed by hostile commenters.
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.
Sports as something people participate in and enjoy watching at a local level
Sports as massive corporate gambling enterprises with bootlicking and flaghumping propaganda built right in
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.
