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I love watching my kids play sports but I have no interest other than that. As a kid, I tried various team sports but they never interested me. I preferred things with engines, mountain biking, exploring, etc. As an adult i have friends that will watch football the entire day on Sunday and I think to myself, what a waste.
Until that time I always assumed that every male was interested in sports as I grew up with them being such an integral part of my life. All of my friends were also into sports as well, so I never realized there were men out there that didn't share the same interests.
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I used to be a Cincinnati Reds fan, mainly for Pete Rose. Dallas was my favorite team, actually my ONLY team.
Well, Rose got caught, and the "New Ego Players" started coming out, I quit, then when Jerry took a knee, I quit watching any football. Not even college.
I found out, I was a "fan" not a "fanatic" now? I might watch curling ro put me to sleep.
I used to be a Cincinnati Reds fan, mainly for Pete Rose. Dallas was my favorite team, actually my ONLY team.
Well, Rose got caught, and the "New Ego Players" started coming out, I quit, then when Jerry took a knee, I quit watching any football. Not even college.
I found out, I was a "fan" not a "fanatic" now? I might watch curling ro put me to sleep.
Funny combination. I was a Reds fan, Perez my favorite. Pretty much gave up on baseball after the strike that skipped the world series. I like sports competition, not millionaires competing over money.
Dallas was always my 2nd favorite team. But once i got married, I couldn't spend Saturdays and Sundays and my wife liked College football. So I don't pay much attention to pro football anymore.
I was never into sports and it hasn't grown on me. I'm a very heady person and have a sedentary profession. It didn't help that I developed lyme disease and was pretty crippled up for much of my adult life. I came to associate movement, much less exercise, with pain.
I'm cured now and value walking as exercise but I still can't even say I know most of the rules of any major sport. As to how I handle conversation, I mostly don't. There are lots of things to talk about other than sports, and people who can't talk about anything else are, to me, boors.
I think what appeals to people about sports is the competitive and tribal aspects of it. It's something to socially coalesce around that's non-threatening and transcends many differences humans can have. What it just boils down to me is that rather than go "WOO-HOO" I just go 'yay' (ironically). It just doesn't float my boat. I can't even pretend it's exciting to me. When I was growing up I remember flipping the (then limited) TV channels looking for something to watch and the baseball games just struck me as a lot of white noise from a crowd while some guy filled up the interminable periods between plays with boring comments about this or that player's prospects or recent exploits. Then something would happen and the crowd would roar and the announcer would narrate it. Rinse and repeat. *yawn*
I love sports, it's the "something to watch" on the weekends. Originally from California, I'm Rams and dodgers all the way.
My brother has let go of many sports including Fantasy Football, too much political interference, he says. So it's the one thing I can talk to my Dad, 93, about. I've kinda lost interest in Nascar, but baseball and football will always be on my radar. My brother will watch the Ram's if it's available in his area. He does it to also talk to Dad about it.
There is nothing wrong with liking sports, it doesn't make you more manly or any of that BS. I like, for me, whatever entertainment it can provide plus knowing some of the players past, helps me to understand the games more.
I love watching my kids play sports but I have no interest other than that. As a kid, I tried various team sports but they never interested me. I preferred things with engines, mountain biking, exploring, etc. As an adult i have friends that will watch football the entire day on Sunday and I think to myself, what a waste.
I'm with you on all accounts.
I'd rather be in my workshop doing woodworking than wasting the day watching sports.my wife says that she loves it that I never made her into a, "SPORTS WIDOW". We also enjoy outside activities such a walking, lawn care, gardening and sometimes just sitting outside enjoying our home together.
I used to be a Cincinnati Reds fan, mainly for Pete Rose. Dallas was my favorite team, actually my ONLY team.
Well, Rose got caught, and the "New Ego Players" started coming out, I quit, then when Jerry took a knee, I quit watching any football. Not even college.
I found out, I was a "fan" not a "fanatic" now? I might watch curling ro put me to sleep.
I could have written this. ^^^^
When Pete Rose chased the money and ledt the Reds was the beginning of the end foe me.
I'd rather be in my workshop doing woodworking than wasting the day watching sports.my wife says that she loves it that I never made her into a, "SPORTS WIDOW". We also enjoy outside activities such a walking, lawn care, gardening and sometimes just sitting outside enjoying our home together.
Funny how people on this forum feel superior because of their entertainment choices.
When Pete Rose chased the money and ledt the Reds was the beginning of the end foe me.
Wouldn't most people in the working world go for more money?
When Rose left Cincinnati, the Big Red Machine was over ... It wasn't just aboot the money for him, he was 38 years old and wanted another shot at being on a World Series winner. He got that with the Phillies.
Funny how people on this forum feel superior because of their entertainment choices.
What do you mean by that?
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