Can you still enjoy sport in the GloboHomo age?

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BlackLeftLeft

Sparrow
I don't buy the sports/ porn comparison but if someone believes it I can respect that and understand where they're coming from.

I only watch full USC football games now and that's because I went there. I gave up NFL games a few years back, although I still see highlights on YouTube and such. No full games or devoting basically entire Sundays, and now Monday and Thursday nights to it. Sports, the NFL on particular, is a huge time suck if you let it be.
 
Kingsley Davis

Kingsley Davis

Ostrich
BlackLeftLeft said:
I don't buy the sports/ porn comparison but if someone believes it I can respect that and understand where they're coming from.

I only watch full USC football games now and that's because I went there. I gave up NFL games a few years back, although I still see highlights on YouTube and such. No full games or devoting basically entire Sundays, and now Monday and Thursday nights to it. Sports, the NFL on particular, is a huge time suck if you let it be.
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Word, the porn comparison is a bit harsh. Now i'm supposed to think of trips to matches in my youth with related and non related males as a form of porn?:s
 
RIslander

RIslander

 
Banned
I still enjoy NHL games and Formula 1 races. NASCAR is fun in person. A baseball game here and there in person is fun with friends. Pretty much everything else sucks.
 
Salinger

Salinger

 
Banned
JiggyLordJr said:
Watching other men play sports is like watching other dudes fuck girls. In other words, it's just another form of porn. Voyeurism. How many of these sports "fans" are actually sports players themselves? Seems like most of these guys are living vicariously through the players that they cheer on, while they themselves sip carbs on a barstool. It's quite sad, actually. Needless to say, watching sports is a complete waste of time - time that should be spent playing the desired sport. Or at the very least being productively engaged. Sure, it's great to be inspired by great athletes, but following their every movement is borderline insane. Sitting in front of the tube - being sedentary - watching other men - being active - is a great way to slowly erode your self-esteem and catalyze your metamorphosis into a middle aged chump.

The whole spectator culture started with Gladiators in the ancient times. I imagine it must have genuinely enthralling - nothing is more exciting than a battle where only one man makes it out alive. Someone PM me when they bring that back on the air.
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It's not "sad" or a "complete waste of time" watching the best of the best go head to head in a sport. I agree with those who say that buying and wearing another man's jersey is pathetic, but that's a far cry from taking in a good game.

Being a casual sports fan is fine as it has been for decades...until men (and now women) started acting like fan-actics. Too many people these days have taken it too far and worship the players while buying all sorts of merchandise to support their team.

There's also the fantasy sports league crowd where you are basically playing the stock market with sports players. A fun way to make some money if you're good at picking winners.
 
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PrimeTime32

Woodpecker
I still watch sports but I watch with the sound off and mostly alone. To me many of the commentators ruin the game and try to create narratives that are not really there. I watch sports mainly basketball (because I played until college) and football. I don't really pay attention to all the outside noise and just focus on the game play and the various strategies teams employ which makes it very enjoyable for me.
 
Sword and Board

Sword and Board

 
Banned
Catholic
Sports used to be about local communities made of people who actually came from and contributed to said communities facing off against rivals.

Today’s sportsball is corporate team red vs corporate team blue, advertising product and social indoctrination.

I see a lot of white men idol worshipping these players and engage this cuckoldry with their family and wonder why their daughter ends up a single mother with a litter of Tyrone’s.

You don’t see brothers at ice hockey games or cheering on Michael Phelps sixth gold at the olympics. Yet a stadium will be filled with white folk masturbating to usain bolt dash one hundred meters.

I’ve played amateur sport for years. Most families that come to watch cheer on the whole team. Ethnic families only cheer on their tribal member participating in the team.
 
RDF

RDF

Woodpecker
Yes, I can.

For me its easy to tune out the politics. I'm well aware that almost all of the athletes I enjoy watching disagree with me politically. That's fine, because just like I don't judge my politicians for their sporting ability, I can care less about the political stances of athletes. It's like listening to a 12-year old say who he's "voting" for president. Completely irrelevant.

As an example, I support the protesters in Hong Kong and thought Lebron's statement on China was a complete joke. I'll still watch a Lakers game and not think twice about it. Why should Lebron's political quote impact how much I enjoy him play basketball?

Too many grown men look at athletes as idols beyond just on the court, and then become upset when it turns out they are just humans who often have an agenda that is contradictory to theirs. Just enjoy the game and tune out the bs.
 
Kid Twist

Kid Twist

 
Banned
Sports, like most things, have become more obviously a sign of the times --- consumeristic, pseudo-religious, and corporate entertainment with the almighty dollar ruling all. I still like them, but the bigger picture of all of them has gotten old and they're just flat out too expensive. Especially when we pay enough to see them in HD or pirate them, why would we bother that much with live games? Then there's the propaganda of using them in tandem with social issues.

Don't worry, they'll start their decline soon, the TV contracts are going to gradually lose value and it will be a significant hit to player contracts in the next 5-10 years. In the right setting, still fun to watch, just gradually join the efforts to starve them of their stinking profits over time and you'll feel even better about it.
 
Simeon_Strangelight

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Hermetic Seal

Hermetic Seal

Pelican
Orthodox
Gold Member
I get the sports-as-porn argument, but where do you draw the line? You could apply the same criticism to movies, TV shows, anime, novels, or anything else - the accusation that you're living vicariously through the characters and whatnot. Are we not supposed to enjoy anything for fun, at all? Maybe if you're a hard-core stoic, but I don't want to live like that. No doubt, though, that many people have an obsession with sports stars that is clearly unhealthy - I'm not going to try to defend that. But I don't think there's anything inherently wrong with liking particular players. It's the culture that's gotten ridiculously out of hand (particularly around football in the US, soccer in Europe, etc.)

I don't have the ability (or youth) to be much of a baseball player - but I think I can get something out of seeing guys aspire to excellence in their field, just like how I can admire a great work of art, or a classical orchestra, or architecture without having those same abilities myself.

I enjoy the "story" aspect of baseball - players who turn into unlikely heroes, who fail to live up to their potential, or straight-up dominate. I find this a lot more compelling than your average drama or movie with fake plots concocted by (((writers))) that are usually motivated by The Agenda.
 
TheFinalEpic

TheFinalEpic

Pelican
Catholic
Gold Member
I enjoy watching F1, although the same teams win every year, so there's gotta be some changes that happen to make sure that the playing field is more level.

Men die in this sport, the crashes are spectacular, and the skill level to drive at close to 300kph and then stop on a pin is a skill that only a handful of people on Earth have.

I think, unfortunately this stuff is creeping into every sport, because they lost the grid girls a year or so back, and that's trash.
 
Salinger

Salinger

 
Banned
HermeticAlly said:
I don't have the ability (or youth) to be much of a baseball player - but I think I can get something out of seeing guys aspire to excellence in their field, just like how I can admire a great work of art, or a classical orchestra, or architecture without having those same abilities myself.
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Well put.
 
SlickyBoy

SlickyBoy

Hummingbird
TheFinalEpic said:
I enjoy watching F1, although the same teams win every year, so there's gotta be some changes that happen to make sure that the playing field is more level.

Men die in this sport, the crashes are spectacular, and the skill level to drive at close to 300kph and then stop on a pin is a skill that only a handful of people on Earth have.

I think, unfortunately this stuff is creeping into every sport, because they lost the grid girls a year or so back, and that's trash.
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What bothered me about the grid girls going away wasn't that I couldn't find something to look at elsewhere, but it was a component of exactly what you're describing. Formula 1 is a no-shit dangerous activity and no amount of you-go-girlism will put Danica Patrick onto the podium (she's pretty mediocre no matter what she drives, BTW.)

The male participants, both brave and skilled, are at the peak of their physical and mental agility, while the women on display ***at the finish line*** are the epitome of fertile and feminine.

Taking the attractive women away had nothing to do with the stated motives of the globalists and everything to do with removing a token gesture of the rewards for the man - and it will always be a man - who wins. It's the death of civilization by a thousand concessions.
 
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Athanasius

Pelican
Protestant
The NBA and NFL fighting on the side of Tolerance (aka. leftist intolerance) in Indiana and North Carolina got my notice, and it's colored everything with pro sports now.

College football is still a guilty pleasure. But it shouldn't be, as the festive Saturdays are really the best PR they can have to cover over how corrupting colleges are, not only to the students who attend them but to the community around it. College towns are almost always more liberal as a result of the school. It's kind of like how the rainbow flags distract from the squalid reality.
 
Aizen

Aizen

Kingfisher
Orthodox
HermeticAlly said:
I get the sports-as-porn argument, but where do you draw the line? You could apply the same criticism to movies, TV shows, anime, novels, or anything else - the accusation that you're living vicariously through the characters and whatnot. Are we not supposed to enjoy anything for fun, at all? Maybe if you're a hard-core stoic, but I don't want to live like that. No doubt, though, that many people have an obsession with sports stars that is clearly unhealthy - I'm not going to try to defend that. But I don't think there's anything inherently wrong with liking particular players. It's the culture that's gotten ridiculously out of hand (particularly around football in the US, soccer in Europe, etc.)

I don't have the ability (or youth) to be much of a baseball player - but I think I can get something out of seeing guys aspire to excellence in their field, just like how I can admire a great work of art, or a classical orchestra, or architecture without having those same abilities myself.

I enjoy the "story" aspect of baseball - players who turn into unlikely heroes, who fail to live up to their potential, or straight-up dominate. I find this a lot more compelling than your average drama or movie with fake plots concocted by (((writers))) that are usually motivated by The Agenda.
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A distinction must be made:

Films/anime/TV/novels - fiction

Sports - real-time

One is supposed to live vicariously through fiction; it's the expression of human creativity that stimulates imagination. In this cold world of ours, the creative arts that result in these mediums allows us brief escape. But no one expects you to emulate Superman - you'd probably die. Hence why we find fiction so interesting; it passes the bounds of reality that we are confined to.

Sports on the other hand, is a real-time recording of men doing things within the bounds of reality. This usually entails activity surrounding a ball, in coordination with other men. This can be done by most able-bodied men, yet they choose to sit in front of the tube and watch it instead. Even if you watch and play sports, the time spent engaged in voyeurism could be applied to a more productive persuit. Unless you are studying their techniques or somehow benefiting from watching these other men, you are on a slippery slope of voyeurism. Occasionally attending a sports game is cool (think Jay-Z sitting courtside), but being a "sports fan," these days is basically synonymous with being a chump.
 
Garuda

Garuda

Pelican
Protestant
I like baseball the most nowadays. No matter how one tries to cheat or what the commissioner does to tweak the sport, at the end of the day you have to hit a sphere with a cylinder and the best can only do that 30-40% of the time. Personally I was never any good at it.

Ice hockey used to be my favorite but I just cannot view the NHL of my youth and the NHL of the present as one and the same. I grew up watching the Norris Division which was one big brawl. Who needed the UFC when you had dudes running the goalies, causing the benches to clear? Now it's "all skill" but you sit and watch some dude circle around the zone and score like the old Sega Genesis games. Everybody is defending by staying in one spot swinging their sticks to clog lanes. No hip checks or even a nice shoulder to chest hit. People complain that so and so didn't receive a big enough suspension for an elbow and I tell them that he probably wouldn't have thought about doing that in the 80's. Then they turned the skills competition into a spotlight on women players last year. It's nice to watch once in awhile but I'm not as passionate about it as in the past.

I think sports were more authentic back in the day when the majority of players worked a regular job in the offseason. This requirement meant only the very passionate played and the fan was going to get his money's worth out of watching.
 
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