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SeattleUte 09-07-2006 03:18 AM

What's hard for me to stomach about speactator sports.
 
I'm finding fellow fans almost intolerable. I know that there are many who don't fit the following description, but too many of them do. When the team wins, they think they did it, they think they're gods, preening and strutting around like they belong to a master race. All the while their personal success is just a figment of their imagination. Dungeons and dragons. For some reason spectator sports attracts many on whom the virtues of humility, reflection, gratitude, and memory are simply lost. Then as soon as adversity sets in, there is no place for the virtues of perseverence, optimism, and patience. If I were stuck in a fox hole with any of these whiners I'd take my chances fleeing across the open field strafed by machine gun fire. Inconceivable to them are the truisms that the reward is in the journey, that defeat is what makes victory all the sweeter, the fact of opposition in all things is what makes sport interesting. Most of these people shlep through life in a fog of mediocrity and sloth, spending obscene numbers of hours glued to the boob tube, often drinking themselves stupid, but when it comes to the coaches and players associated with their favorite teams, they demand standards of perfection attainable only by Greek gods. I used to think this was BYU fans. Not so. Ute fans are just as horrid. I despise most fans as a class. They're harder to tolerate now with the Internet. It used to be you only had to hear from the asses occupying the seats around you for three hours once a week. Now they're everywhere.

Jeff Lebowski 09-07-2006 03:49 AM

Amen, brother. Amen.

The Borg 09-07-2006 04:31 AM

Classic! Good one.

jay santos 09-07-2006 05:38 AM

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Originally Posted by SeattleUte
For some reason spectator sports attracts many on whom the virtues of humility, reflection, gratitude, and memory are simply lost.

Of the thousands of internet personalities I've read over the years, you are the #1 most ironic person to write that. Boy that's funny. Thanks Seattle. I was having a hard day and that laugh really lightened my load.

il Padrino Ute 09-07-2006 08:40 AM

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Originally Posted by SeattleUte
Ute fans are just as horrid.

What you're witnessing on uf.n is Goatnapper's Theorum; however, I believe that it's been proven, therefore it's now Goatnapper's 1st Law of fandom.

Archaea 09-07-2006 11:37 AM

Internet personalities belittling other internet personalities for lack of sophistication can be just as banal and insufferable.

SeattleUte 09-07-2006 02:35 PM

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Originally Posted by Archaea
Internet personalities belittling other internet personalities for lack of sophistication can be just as banal and insufferable.

That's no excuse.

MikeWaters 09-07-2006 02:43 PM

what are you saying about Dungeons and Dragons? I dare you to say it to my face!

Goatnapper'96 09-07-2006 02:52 PM

Quote:

Originally Posted by SeattleUte
I'm finding fellow fans almost intolerable. I know that there are many who don't fit the following description, but too many of them do. When the team wins, they think they did it, they think they're gods, preening and strutting around like they belong to a master race. All the while their personal success is just a figment of their imagination. Dungeons and dragons. For some reason spectator sports attracts many on whom the virtues of humility, reflection, gratitude, and memory are simply lost. Then as soon as adversity sets in, there is no place for the virtues of perseverence, optimism, and patience. If I were stuck in a fox hole with any of these whiners I'd take my chances fleeing across the open field strafed by machine gun fire. Inconceivable to them are the truisms that the reward is in the journey, that defeat is what makes victory all the sweeter, the fact of opposition in all things is what makes sport interesting. Most of these people shlep through life in a fog of mediocrity and sloth, spending obscene numbers of hours glued to the boob tube, often drinking themselves stupid, but when it comes to the coaches and players associated with their favorite teams, they demand standards of perfection attainable only by Greek gods. I used to think this was BYU fans. Not so. Ute fans are just as horrid. I despise most fans as a class. They're harder to tolerate now with the Internet. It used to be you only had to hear from the asses occupying the seats around you for three hours once a week. Now they're everywhere.

It is not often that I agree with you. The only question is for such a sophisticated fellow how you could possibly conclude this phenomnon was organic to BYU? Does that not display a wee bit provincialism on your part?

Sports fans suck.

All-American 09-07-2006 03:00 PM

The reason he thought it was confined to BYU fans was because, for many years, BYU fans were the only ones whose team won games. Now that Utah won a few games, they act just the same.


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