Do you find it a bit sickening that people who aren't the least bit fit get all enthusiastic about NFL games on TV? It's one thing if you yourself work out hard at some physical activity and can appreciate hard work. Maybe you go to the gym, are a former athlete, or a competitive runner, and get some inspiration from watching pro athletics.
But It's another thing to just be sedentary person and watch games while these big guys making millions pushing people around
Maybe they are intelligent & appreciate the game schemes and coaching.
no
You my friend, are a winner!
You are far from what a professional athlete would call 'fit'. This really isn't something that should worry you. Not a big issue.
So Cal has a unique sports culture not seen elsewhere in the USA. What you say is typical outside of So Cal area. In So Cal people do sports and not watch it on TV. Outside of So Cal sports is about watching on TV or sitting in the stands and spectating. That's why So Cal is the Track and Field, Distance, Baseball, Basketball, and Olympic Sports Capitol of the World. LA, SD, OC kids have won more Olympic medals, WC medals, MLB World Series, NBA Champs, NCAA B-Ball, Baseball, and FB champs than anywhere else.
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two Cultures wrote:
LA, SD, OC kids have won more Olympic medals, WC medals, MLB World Series, NBA Champs, NCAA B-Ball, Baseball, and FB champs than anywhere else.
How many distance medals? None? Lazy bums.
I don't follow your logic here. You have to be fit in order to enjoy watching football? Get over yourself, dude.
Deena Meb Ryan Johnny
I don't know about sickening, but I've always thought it odd for people who have no realistic hope of participating in a particular sport to be obsessed with watching it.
Example; Middle-aged women who've never played football, or any other sport most likely, yet hover around the tube munching on chips, watching bowl games and hollering at the players as if they have a clue what that experience is like. Strange.
Why do you care if people watching football are in good shape?
I don't find it sickening, but a little curious. I imagine being a sports nut is a way for completely out of shape people to somehow vicariously participate in sport.
except that mammoth lakes is a 6 hour+ drive from LA.
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Well, the OP is a douche, but he brings up something that I conferred about with a mate the other day...
In the Southern US, upper-class whites raise their sons to be sports fans as opposed to athletes. I am not sure if this is a new thing, or if it has been this way for a while.
As I was having dinner with my wife at the country club the other night, a friend of ours made a statement along the lines of, "I'll see to it that my son knows more about NFL football than any of his friends so he can rule the fantasy draft every year." Another friend's wife piped in with a comment along the lines of "You are just like my brother. All you care about is sports. What a bunch of jocks."
The funny thing is that neither of these guys are jocks or ever have been jocks. They are both fat, lazy and uncoordinated. Great guys, though. I love them.
In Southern, upper-class culture, fat guys who know about sports are now the athletes (jocks).
I think it is hilarious.
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Mammoth is populated 100% with L.A. people. A privately owned resort. Mainly sports fisherman, skiers, outdoorsmen, and a few Holocaust impersonators aka runners.
In answer to the OP, no. No this does not sicken me.
idiot. sports are entertainment just like the movies or tv. i've never shot a gun but I love watching action flicks.
I think you have a misconception as to why people enjoy "ball" sports.
what's sickening is a) that we have an epidemic of obesity that costs all of us, b) football culture supports obesity, and c) it is so sedentary and time and calorie consuming that it takes the place of any exercise. And then the meatheads yelling at the screen that they could do better when in fact they can barely waddle to the john during commercials.