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I have nothing against sports...until it becomes a pathological obsession.
I currently live in an area without a professional sports team, but the local university's basketball and football teams are nationally prominent. The rival state university is only 70 miles away.
The local media gives sports a high priority. One radio station broadcasts everything about the local team three hours every evening. This includes interviews, in-depth analysis, future plans, predictions, etc. The online edition of the newspaper has a section which displays the items of most interest to local residents. Of 7 items, usually (if not all) 5 are about local basketball or football. Sports results rate front page news. New acquistions for the team also rate front page. Bumper stickers are sports oriented. Some cars have the team flag attached on a plastic pole in the window. People wear team apparel, hats, shirts, jackets, etc. I've even seen some with tatoos of the university's team logo. Home windows display team logos.
Sports are fine. But people that eat, sleep, and dream sports 24/7 are boring. One-track minds are boring. They also make their community boring. Nothing else in the world matters, except basketball and football.
Do you also live in an area where sports is the only thing happening?
I live in Los Angeles...home of mostly brain dead Lakers, Dodgers, USC and Raiders fans. I HATE all these teams...well I don't like any college sports, and the Lakers are okay but I'm not big on the Kobe issue.
I love going to Dodgers games and poking fun at the fans.
Sounds like Knoxville to me!!! Its impossible to not see at least 10 UT items (bumper stickers, ad billboards, shirts, hats, etc.) for every hour spent in public. It does get old after a while.
But that being said, had I grown up here and been a UT fan all along, I would probably not think its a big deal and just view it as a huge support for the hometown teams. I try to not pay attention to it as much as possible.
There is a large mixed sports fan base here, a lot of cowboys and raiders fans, i went out to watch the Packers vs Cowboys game, I saw many people come close to fighting over the game, all the local hangouts were packed. I like Football so it doesn't bother me.
Compound that with the rabid obsession of the Buckeyes fans in the area (I proudly count myself in that number), and you have one sport-obsession mecca.
Yeah, they're not bad for an NFC team (I'm a life-long Pats fan)
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