How does one identify with a team that they have absolutely no vested interest in?

[FatKidSullivan]

Sports are fun. They're a nice distraction from your everyday life and all the crap that goes with it. It gives you something to talk about with your friends.

[FatKidSullivan]

This is like asking why people like watching movies, or reading books, or going swimming. It's fun! Who cares?

[2Manboobs]

I doubt that you ever played baseball.

I played organized Baseball and Football for a majority of my youth .... Played 3rd base in Baseball & Wingback/Free-Safety in Football

So, your baseless assumptions are incorrect (I'm sure you hear that a lot, No doubt)

[Daveindiego]

Your logic is becoming more bizarre by the day

When you played little league, did your old man yell at you to "Stop swinging like a fucking cunt!!!"?

[Markijuano]

Gambling makes strange bedfellows

[Gunslinger]

You're not a part owner...You don't personally know anyone on the team....There are no prizes handed out to the fans of the winner... Your being a fan of a "winner" doesn't entitle you to anything tangible, or otherwise....

As a person who grew up playing Little League Baseball (regular and Summer league) & High School Football, I get the fun & emotion associated with playing sports... But I absolutely don't get the rabid fandom one carries for a team that they have absolutely no vested interest in...The giant flags waving from the bed of your truck...The silly flag you fly from your front porch.....The tattoos...... What causes one to be loyal to a certain team?...and, what does one gain by trash-talking an opponent of "your team", when their success or failure has absolutely no impact of any kind on your life?

Help me to understand. . . .

I guess you also don't understand why people live music, movies etc.....it's entertainment. really not a difficult concept.

[The Shiv]

i bought 11 squares so im rooting for a number

[Scott]

Played 3rd base in Baseball

I had you figured for a catcher.

[2Manboobs]

Sports are fun. They're a nice distraction from your everyday life and all the crap that goes with it. It gives you something to talk about with your friends.

I get that ..And, that's why I loved playing them when I was growing up.. I just cant wrap my head around me getting emotionally involved in something that doesn't impact my life in any facet...

[2Manboobs]

I had you figured for a catcher.

..... Ahhhhhhhhhhh, No.

Wasn't a fan of placing my head a few inches from a swinging aluminum bat, while simultaneously having pitchers use my nut-sack as the target they aim their pitches at..

[FatKidSullivan]

I get that ..And, that's why I loved playing them when I was growing up.. I just cant wrap my head around me getting emotionally involved in something that doesn't impact my life in any facet...

Do you have any bands that you like listening to? Television shows or movies that are important to you or changed the way you think? Or do you just sit at home coming up with hypothetical questions to post at a HSS message board?

[sarnie]

You're not a part owner...You don't personally know anyone on the team....There are no prizes handed out to the fans of the winner... Your being a fan of a "winner" doesn't entitle you to anything tangible, or otherwise....

As a person who grew up playing Little League Baseball (regular and Summer league) & High School Football, I get the fun & emotion associated with playing sports... But I absolutely don't get the rabid fandom one carries for a team that they have absolutely no vested interest in...The giant flags waving from the bed of your truck...The silly flag you fly from your front porch.....The tattoos...... What causes one to be loyal to a certain team?...and, what does one gain by trash-talking an opponent of "your team", when their success or failure has absolutely no impact of any kind on your life?

Help me to understand. . . .

brainwashing 101

[2Manboobs]

I guess you also don't understand why people live music, movies etc.....it's entertainment. really not a difficult concept.

I didn't say that watching the game itself wouldn't be entertaining from an emotional prospective.... The same goes for music & movies/theater.
However, you don't see too many adults wearing Luke Skywalker t-shirts, and arguing with Darth Vader fans about whose "stronger in the force" ....And when you see someone with a massive Depeche Mode sticker in their rear-window, you tend to think that person is a bit of a douchebag...

[FatKidSullivan]

However, you don't see too many adults wearing Luke Skywalker t-shirts, and arguing with Darth Vader fans about whose "stronger in the force"

Where you been, boss?

[Jim J Jiblets]

arguing with Darth Vader fans about whose "stronger in the force"

[2Manboobs]

Do you have any bands that you like listening to? Television shows or movies that are important to you or changed the way you think? Or do you just sit at home coming up with hypothetical questions to post at a HSS message board?

Of course I do...Just like I have favorite foods I like to eat..... But I don't get a flag with a giant picture of a Pizza on it, saying "My Pizza is better than your Chimichanga" ..... I don't treat the TV shows I enjoy watching, the Foods I enjoy eating, or my favorite pair of shorts as an ideology ...

[jdwhatever]

I played organized Baseball and Football for a majority of my youth .... Played 3rd base in Baseball & Wingback/Free-Safety in Football

So, your baseless assumptions are incorrect (I'm sure you hear that a lot, No doubt)

so you were a wannabe running back

lol

[jdwhatever]

youth football and baseball means, speech and debate team in h.s.

[2Manboobs]

youth football and baseball means, speech and debate team in h.s.

Well, unlike your experience, I didn't go to high school with too many adults (hence, the youth moniker)... I played football in High School, as well (where, interestingly enough, I attended as a youth)....I had no interests in any other extracurricular activities....Although, had they had a Surf-team (as some schools in Orange County did) I, likely would have participated in that instead of lifting weights in the off-season (which is what the football teams did for P.E. class in the off season)