The drama of all sports is fake, it's contrived.

Stop being a drama queen.

Congratulations. You just figured out that sports are pure entertainment. Now perhaps you'll figure out that sports also allow us to temporarily forget the ugliness of the world around us. This is something of enormous value. Hardly silly.

You Mad Bro ?

People only care about things they empathize with. Any 'drama' is only relevant to the people that care about it, including your surgeon trying to save a life or your soldier examples. Sport is another avenue.

Think about it, if on one channel there was the Superbowl and on another channel a live Accident and Emergency programme where someone critically injured is receiving treatment, what are the masses going to watch and 'care' about? What are the family of the injured person going to watch?

If you are in fact trying to say that sports don't matter, then of course, you are entitled to that opinion.

Not always. The ancient Mayans would take the losing ball team, drag them up a stepped pyramid and carve out their hearts with a stone blade while the bloodthirsty crowd cheered wildly. You can't get more dramatic than that.

Besides staging fights to the death in their collosseum, the degenerate romans also fed people to animals and flung them across the arena with catapults.

I suppose you won't be happy until everyone outside the top 20 in your local road race is rounded up and burned alive or something. People like you make me sick.

Then I suggest you stop watching and competing. Also you write poorly. Lots of confusing stuff. "...it might be drama but its (sp) only play...drama". Makes little sense.

You what else is a waste of time: you posting on a forum and me reading it.

Soccer has replaced war.

it's all relative.

one could argue that ALL things in this life are fake, an illusion, created by our own perception.

one big drama narrated by our wee little brains.

Bad Wigins wrote:

People like you make me sick.

you make many people sick too.

Maybe we should feed you to the lions...

Bad Wigins wrote:

Not always. The ancient Mayans would take the losing ball team, drag them up a stepped pyramid and carve out their hearts with a stone blade while the bloodthirsty crowd cheered wildly. You can't get more dramatic than that.

Besides staging fights to the death in their collosseum, the degenerate romans also fed people to animals and flung them across the arena with catapults.

I suppose you won't be happy until everyone outside the top 20 in your local road race is rounded up and burned alive or something. People like you make me sick.

Still 100% contrived.

Randy Oldman wrote:

Soccer has replaced war.

This.

Stinker of Cheap Bots wrote:

[quote]Bad Wigins wrote:

You can't get more dramatic than that.

Still 100% contrived.

Not in the sense of being fake, it's not. The drama comes from the calamity suffered by the loser, which is real.

Drama is counted in $$$. Which means there's a lot of non-contrived drama in sports.

Thinker of Blatant Thoughts wrote:

People only care about things they empathize with. Any 'drama' is only relevant to the people that care about it, including your surgeon trying to save a life or your soldier examples. Sport is another avenue.

Think about it, if on one channel there was the Superbowl and on another channel a live Accident and Emergency programme where someone critically injured is receiving treatment, what are the masses going to watch and 'care' about? What are the family of the injured person going to watch?

If you are in fact trying to say that sports don't matter, then of course, you are entitled to that opinion.

The masses might be interested be more interested in the fake drama of the game but that doesn't mean its real drama. The person trying to save a critically injured person is real drama. Interest level is irrelevant.

Stinker of Cheap Bots wrote:

Bad Wigins wrote:

Not always. The ancient Mayans would take the losing ball team, drag them up a stepped pyramid and carve out their hearts with a stone blade while the bloodthirsty crowd cheered wildly. You can't get more dramatic than that.

Besides staging fights to the death in their collosseum, the degenerate romans also fed people to animals and flung them across the arena with catapults.

I suppose you won't be happy until everyone outside the top 20 in your local road race is rounded up and burned alive or something. People like you make me sick.

Still 100% contrived.

Exactly contrived, and certainly not relevant to all the contrived sports drama happening in today.

Thinker of Deep Thoughts wrote:

The person trying to save a critically injured person is real drama. Interest level is irrelevant.

To most of us Super Bowl is a lot more real than if one out of the world's 7 billion people is dying somewhere in Africa.

Its interesting how you react because when you read that all that drama you feel from your big races is contrived or fake. First you ignore the content and prefer to address spelling or criticize writing or just refer to the post as a waste of time.

The funny thing is, you never address whether your experienced drama about your races is contrived fake drama.

You really avoided the whole point of the post. I guess we could talk spelling instead......you might be more comfortable with that.

My point wasn't about interest levels or mass audiences/the Media.

I can reiterate my point by saying on one channel is the Superbowl, another is the World Cup Soccer final, another is a soap opera season finale and the other the critically injured American man. Which are YOU going to watch? Which am I going to watch? Which is the family of the man going to watch? Which might your great great grandmother have watched?

The 'drama', is relevant to the audience observing it. People care about things that they personally find interesting. It doesn't matter that in your opinion you think watching a critically injured person being saved is more important than the sports or the TV drama show. You aren't simply correct because you think that way.

I think that world cup soccer is more interesting and the feel the drama far more than the Superbowl and so would watch that. The drama is no more 'fake' in any of the situations. It is perspective and opinion purely; a surgeon trying to save a stranger that you don't know is just simply not drama at all for some people. Sports truly appeals to some peoples' emotions far more than the examples you gave in the original post, and that makes the drama as real as any other life experience for them.

Remember, opinion is not fact.

Lets get beyond the semantics. Your point is that drama is internally experienced regardless of whether the situation is worthwhile or not. A teenager girl might feel much more drama over what to wear to school then you might experience over a life and death surgery with someone from another country. Your point is that it is subjective.

I don't disagree with that but we need to clarify the language. When I use the term real drama versus contrived drama I am referring to drama where the results have significant meaningful impact on people's life. When I use contrived or fake drama, I am referring to drama without this type of impact to real life but drama that may be experienced as "drama" but has no real life major impact on people.

I think its important for people to understand the difference. I would rather watch a football game versus a surgery of someone I didn't know. I might even get more worked up about my team playing and winning. But not for a minute will I think the drama of the football game is as real as the drama of the surgery saving the guys life.