Fanatics...

[xBaron Dants]

Oph, why all this elitist "I am an intellectual therefore I cannot be a fan of a sports team because only non-intellectuals are fans of sports teams" attitude?

Watching sports is a form of entertainment. Watching a movie is a form of entertainment. While watching a movie, you usually want the good guy to win (or since everybody's so unique and special here, I guess you usually want the bad guy to win). In sports, you also choose a team which you would like to see win. It makes the game a lot more interesting. There's nothing more to it.

[dusken]

Oph, why all this elitist "I am an intellectual therefore I cannot be a fan of a sports team because only non-intellectuals are fans of sports teams" attitude?

Nobody said anything about intellectual vs. not intellectual. If that is all yoiu gathered from my posts, then you did not read anything. This is about making sense.

Watching sports is a form of entertainment. Watching a movie is a form of entertainment. While watching a movie, you usually want the good guy to win (or since everybody's so unique and special here, I guess you usually want the bad guy to win). In sports, you also choose a team which you would like to see win. It makes the game a lot more interesting. There's nothing more to it.

I am not going to respond to this. I am in shock by that "while watching a movie, you usually want the good guy to win" line.

[xBaron Dants]

Nobody said anything about intellectual vs. not intellectual. If that is all yoiu gathered from my posts, then you did not read anything. This is about making sense.



I am not going to respond to this. I am in shock by that "while watching a movie, you usually want the good guy to win" line.

Anon said something about it being something for the simpletons yevayln.

Uff toon al....point is, you want somebody to win. Good or bad, no difference. If nobody cheered for the bad guys, the Toronto Maple Leafs would go bankrupt by now.

[loseyourname]

Sports are pretty damn boring without the fans. Just watch an Atlanta Hawks game.

[spookyghost]

thanks guys for making this thread very entertaining to read.

its just rather annoying seeing the over extremist fans constantly shoving there favorite teams down everyones throats.

anyway, let all those lame extremist fans go out and buy all the laker merchandise and lose all there money over it. Pretty soon they will become broke and stfu

[dusken]

Anon said something about it being something for the simpletons yevayln.

Uff toon al....point is, you want somebody to win. Good or bad, no difference. If nobody cheered for the bad guys, the Toronto Maple Leafs would go bankrupt by now.

Regarding mental simplicity: I am not going to say anything other than, because of what I had pointed out earlier, having devotion to a sports team is meaningless and unfounded as an attitude and is driven by a mob mentality. Whether someone views that lack of thought as mental simplicity is up to that person.

Regarding film: Baron, the problem with your analogy is that you are talking about a story in a movie and this is about the artforms being compared to sports. It is not the same thing. Even though it makes no sense, I will defeat that particular comment anyway: not all movie stories have a good guy and a bad guy.

[spookyghost]

Sports are pretty damn boring without the fans. Just watch an Atlanta Hawks game.

then there is no point in watching sports/games just go watch a room full of people chanting, screaming and bickering over lame or good moves some team player makes

[xBaron Dants]

Somebody smart can also (and I think SHOULD also) have fun with not-so-smart things. There's nothing wrong with that from time to time.

As for film, I agree. It's a bad analogy.
Here's a better one: Anonymouse always seems to have a favourite for the next UFC match. Is it different to be a supporter of a single fighter instead of being a supporter of a team?

[spookyghost]

duskans arguement had nothing to do with intelligence or intelligent people being fans .

and no one said liking a team or game is not being smart/ intelligent

[spookyghost]

its about obsession and doing whatever the rest of the people do..