Losing interest in the NFL

[Dill]

(09-20-2016, 09:41 AM)michaelsean Wrote: I've been on a decline for years.  If you look at it logically, being a sports fan is really weird.  For most of us, we pick our team based on our city.  It says our city name on their jerseys.  Virtually nobody on the team is from that city, and likely had never been there until they joined the team.  You don't know them, and they don't know you, and they really aren't even concerned with you because they have no idea who you are.  We defend these people when they do wrong, we argue they are the best at their position just because they happen to be on our team at the time.  We emotionally invest in people we will likely never meet.

Some interesting points there. Pro football is not at all like high school, where you know people in your community, maybe even eventually watch your own kids or your friends kids play.

And yet people get deeply invested in the outcome of games. Fans punch one another, etc. Maybe its not so different from watching a soap opera and crying when the heroin gets a divorce or loses her baby.