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At times I think my husband is going to have a heart attack from watching a stressful game! Don't even try to bring some humor to it--"Honey, they can't hear you!".
It's some sort of tribal bonding mechanism I think- ordinary human behavior. Sports, church, flag/military-worship... this is how millions of normal humans find meaning and their place in the world.
Thankfully I'm not normal in that way.
Last edited by turkey-head; 09-11-2018 at 07:13 PM..
I just think it's a way of blowing off steam. Like watching a movie you know is going to make you cry, just because you need a good cry. Or going on a rollercoaster and yelling and being terrified when really, you could avoid the yelling and terror by just not going on roller coaster.
Or even going to a concert and cheering loudly and dancing.
I'm aware of studies that show domestic abuse rises after NFL games on Sunday..
One example:
Study links NFL upsets, domestic abuse
Domestic abuse increases after sports teams unexpectedly lose games, U.S. researchers said Tuesday.
Calls to the police reporting men assaulting their wives or partners rose 10 percent in areas where the local NFL team lost a game they were favored to win, said researchers who analyzed 900 regular-season NFL games.
"Our results suggest that the overall rise in violence between the intimate partners we studied is driven entirely by losses in games that matter most to fans," said a co-author of the study, Dr. David Card, of the University of California, Berkeley.
The research, published in the Quarterly Journal of Economics, said the timings of calls to police suggested the violence usually occurred within the final hour of a game and the two hours after.
"This is not limited to football," Card added. "Someone who gets a speeding ticket on the way home, for example, might also be more likely to act out in a way he would later regret."
It's some sort of tribal bonding mechanism I think- ordinary human behavior. Sports, church, flag/military-worship... this is how millions of normal humans find meaning and their place in the world.
Thankfully I'm not normal in that way.
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Originally Posted by Thoreau424
They represent a group of men who want/need to wall up inside a childish box of primitive nonsense. I don't get it - why that interests them, and why they carry on in that way - but hey, humanity is strange. I've given up trying to understand the unexplainable.
In the end, I'm just glad I'm not like them...
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Tribalism
noun
the state or fact of being organized in a tribe or tribes.
derogatory
the behavior and attitudes that stem from strong loyalty to one's own tribe or social group.
"a society motivated by cultural tribalism"
synonyms: sectarianism, chauvinism; esprit de corps
"the latest waves of violence were blamed on tribalism"
"I am glad I am not like them" is in itself a form of tribalism. And I am thinking "they" probably have the same sentiments about you.
I loved the question about sport fanatics being lazy. Why yes, and they also scratch themselves down there and belch and pass gas!
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Like watching a movie you know is going to make you cry, just because you need a good cry. Or going on a rollercoaster and yelling and being terrified when really, you could avoid the yelling and terror by just not going on roller coaster.
Why yes, and they also scratch themselves down there and belch and pass gas! 
