Why do you love sports, something that don't matter in your real life?

Its the same reason people spend time reading, watching movies, tv or listening to music. Its just for enjoyment. For most its somewhat of a hobby.

How old are you? This may have an impact on your own questions.

I used to watch a whole lot more sporting events when I was in high school and younger, but have now found myself to be less interested in sports as I've gotten older. I still follow sports on the internet, by checking up scores, but I really dont find much time to watch actual games anymore.

Of course, sports has no real bearing on your actual life, but it gives most people a sense of community with others. Something you can discuss with your buddies or at work.

 

i enjoy competition and rooting for my team. im not a huge sports fan, i pretty much just like basketball and boxing. everything else is seasonal to me, as opposed to basketball where its a year round thing to me, i try to find any basketball fix during the offseason. its just fun to watch, i do tend to take it a little too serious, i know it doesnt hold much meaning in "real life" but when u grow up watching a certain team, u have memories. Usually those memories are happy ones so u suffer when they suffer, you celebrate when they celebrate. i remember last year during the playoffs when the rockets lost, i laid on the floor in the living room for like 20 minutes after the game was over. My girlfriend had never seen me act like that, i swear i almost cried lol. im 21 btw

 

I really only care about the teams of my home town. (and where I went to school, which amounts to the same thing, more or less) The Oilers, the Astros, and the Rockets. Yes, I know the Oilers don't exist any longer, but I have my memories. Is that bad? I don't think so.

I wish I could get into the Texans.

 

didnt you ban yourself?

 

Back in the day, I was sickly obsessed with the Rockets. When they won their first title, I began to idolize Robert Horry (weird, I know). Like, I made my parents buy me his jersey, I talked about him nonstop and watched and re-watched his plays, and I locked myself in my room and cried for days when they traded him. At 9, my parents didn't understand why I idolized this basketball player who was at best a role player. I didn't either. All I knew was I adored him, and I am still mad to this day that he was traded.

My entire teenage years were consumed with the Rockets. After Horry was traded I didn't watch them, and then Steve Francis arrived when I was 13. I fell in love with the team again. I went to Stevie's basketball camp the year after his rookie season at Westside, where I purposely injured myself so I could go in the trainer's room and talk to Cuttino Mobley. I went to a Rudy T. book signing. I taped every single game from '00 to '04. In my high school's freshman writing challenge, I wrote a fictional story about Steve Francis leading the Rockets to the title, and I won 1st place. During the "Be Part of Something Big" campaign I entered a contest at rockets.com and was a finalist, and got to record a radio commercial for them. I broke the glass coffee table in my family's living room after Francis was ejected by Kennedy in that game against the Jazz and had to pay 350 dollars to fix it. My entire shirt collection was Rockets shirts at one point (most I ever owned including jerseys was 34). I shut my life down for games and spent hundreds of dollars from months of chores on one ticket to a game. I have every clip of talk about the Rockets on tape, from Inside Stuff segments to halftime interviews and even a skit on SNL when the Rockets are mentioned. I breathed and lived the Houston Rockets.

Part of me hates that I was like that, because seriously, I had no social life (I mean who does during the season ?), I had a lot of heartache (sometimes my best friend would come over after hard losses and sit with me in my room for awhile until I wasn't as upset), they would keep me up all night, I literally shook when I would listen to a tight game on the radio in bed...I just...was so...obsessed.

I think I've thought about the Rockets at least a fourth of my teenage years. My dad tells me it was a waste of time. I came to Baylor ONLY because it has a Sports Sponsorship and Sales program, and I wanted to work for the Rockets.

I don't know why but they've lost a lot of their magic in the past year. They brought me so much joy though, I'm so glad I was born in this city.

Haha...bored at 5:45 in the morning, this is what comes out of it.

 

i was never that bad. but i do remember i wrote a letter i never sent to the rockets that i was mad one game that they didnt didnt put matt maloney in to finish the game and they lost. what the hell was i thinking...

 

dude...you're scaring me. stop.

 

all i can say is, wow. girl, you crazy!

 

What is scarier is that finalsbound is a girl.


(aren't you?)

 

"That man is in more dire need of a blow job than any white man in history."

 

It's like watching history unfold right before your eyes. Especially playoff games.

 

You, miss, just sky-rocketed your status amongst the HOMERS, the TRUE FANS, and ROCKETS LOVERS in this forums. For this, I praise you and I truly admire you.

I think I just changed my signature and Kelly Clarkson's lyrics because of you.

 

I love you.

 

I love sports for how it brings everyone together. When I was hugging everyone in the bar after the Astros beat the Co-Ards, it didn't matter if they were black or white or Asian or Jewish or Christian or Muslim or Republican or Democrat or Libertarian or beautiful or fugly. Sports brings together people of different backgrounds and belief systems like nothing else.

 

1. community

2. hometown pride

3. the metaphors for life

4. we're all failed ________ players (for me it's baseball)

5. connection with the past

 

I watch sports because it's an outlet for all the agression and pent up bad attitude I store up all day. I can take it out on the opposing team, the refs, or I can "open the floodgates" should our team be losing.

That, and I can care about the well-being of other people I don't have to interact with and baby all day long. In turn, if they're doing well, it cheers me up and makes me feel better.

 

I think human beings are hardwired to coalesce into communities of self interest and self protectection, families, tribes, nations etc. The result of joining together is that, as the group succeeds the individual prospers and the risks and rewards are diversified. For forty thousand years or so the ultimate expression of the group effort was warfare where agreesive tribes secure prosperity for their group by plunder or secure their tribe from plunder.

To get the most able, the young men of the tribe, to take the ultimate risk, death and dismemberment, the reward had to be equal and the culture of adoration evolved. Since humans have long since institutionalized warefare and made it infinitely more lethal and somewhat less common, civilized nations have developed sports as a surrogate for warfare.

One of the main attratctions besides the vicarious glory is also that it is one of the few forms of entertainment where the action is sponteneous (well, except wrestleing) and the outcome is in doubt.

 

The time you enjoy wasting is not wasted time. - Bertrand Russell