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[–] [email protected] 32 points 1 month ago (1 children)

News and people giving a shit about sports ball.

[–] [email protected] 12 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago) (1 children)

It's fun to play and complete in your local sportsball league. It's exercise while being fun. Spectating is fun when watching a sport that you also play. Seeing the pros play is it properly lets you bring something back to your own game. I don't actually care who wins. That's tribalism.

Going to a "sports" bar to watch fat people get drunk and place bets makes no sense to me.

I also hate sports trivia. It's just celebrity trivia but for people to star on the field instead of in movies. If I get asked who won a particular award in a particular sport in a particular year, I would have absolutely no idea. If you aksed me to explain the "infield fly" rule, I've got that covered.

And yes, a full 8 minutes of the nightly news covering sports is just insane. I just don't care.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 1 month ago

IMO, this is the most rational stance to have, regarding sportsball.