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I've never been a football fan.
It was definitely my dad's worship of the game and interacting with high school and college level players that did that.
The money wasted on it is absolutely appalling.
I only object to that spending when it's MY money and high school and college sports do consume taxes. No matter what the lying bastards running the schools claim. Every honest audit shows sports is funded out of funds beyond donations by the alumni.
But that objection pales next to the assumption that because I'm an American male that I like, watch, and follow football.
Fuck off is as nice as I can make it come out when someone asks whom I am rooting for.
I try really hard not to force my liking of hockey onto others. Asking the TV nearest me to be tuned to the game is as far as I go.
Even so, I'm not memorizing or doing much debating about individual players and teams.
It's just another form of entertainment. I am not personally harmed by a loss or enriched by a win of the local team.
I cheer and groan while watching, but it's not a lasting feeling.
I don't dedicate a weekend to drinking and eating for any game in hockey.
Of course, hockey decides the champion of the season by playing multiple series of games rather than one big one. It's more like baseball that way.
I'll watch, but I don't follow along week to week, and in the grand scheme, millionaires making billionaires richer by cavorting for common folks does nothing for me, metaphysically nor literally, except briefly entertain.
ReplyDeleteHaving the real-life archtype for Rachel Phelps from Major League destroy, then abscond, with the local team, leaving the local area football team-free for decades, helped tremendously in that regard.
Once the league allowed overpaid prima donnas to dictate their political agenda and usurp any national ethos just made ignoring sportsball in general that much sweeter.
In its favor though, when stationed 8000 miles from home, having Superbowl Monday declared a base-wide holiday, and getting videotapes later of the entire broadcast including the commercials, was a welcome day off work and a slice of hometown America while stuck in the Land Of Fishheads And Rice.
Frankly, I'd probably care more if they cut ticket prices back to less than the price of a hamburger, dropped salaries to accommodate that, and players had to go back to getting jobs in the off-season.
I've never understood the people who swear eternal fealty and loyalty to a sports team, particularly if that team has no connection to them. I've known people who spent more on sports memorabilia than I would on SF stuff if I had that much money.
ReplyDeleteI plan to continue my unbroken streak of not watching the Super Bowl since 1967
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