I’ve lived in the south my entire life, and honestly don’t care for most sports. I hate to admit it, but this meme is 100% true.
Countless times I’ve been chatting with people in social situations and someone inevitably asks me who I think will win “the big game”… I like to think of myself as an honest person so I would always say something along the lines of “sorry, I don’t really follow sports” and said person, who was JUST talking to me like we were old friends, will suddenly look at me like I had a turd sticking out of my pocket.
Football really is like a religion down here. Honestly it’s probably more important to a lot people than religion. People act like a loved one died when their favorite team loses. It’s super weird lol
Okie here. It’s hard not being all the fuck about sports. I like football. I played football in school. But it doesn’t constitute the majority of my personality. My granddad ALWAYS has OU games on. It doesn’t matter if they’re #2 or #22 or got beat by Kansas. It doesn’t matter if they’re playing in the Rose Bowl or the Clorox™ Toilet Bowl. He’s practically consumed by it. I don’t understand it. I love going to the games. You go for the long walk in a loud crowd to end up inside and overpay for a shitty beer that gets warm in five minutes (because it’s 97 degrees), and after enduring all that, your guys might still lose. It actually kinda rocks.
But I prefer concerts. I get to dance to my favorite songs and watch my favorite aging 90s rockers put on a show for cheap because they haven’t been big in 20 years. A concert hardly goes south. But nobody shows up to the water cooler on Monday and goes, “How about that Weezer concert?”
It gets pretty awkward having to tell people you didn’t watch the game because sports is just not important to you.
You can make a game out of it. I once had a colleague who mastered it: didn’t care too much about most sports but knew which colleague liked which sport and which team. So he checked scores and every time a colleague’s favorite team lost he innocently asked at work how the game was. It’s risky since people can get really emotional about it but it’s usually lots of fun.
bread and circuses to keep the masses distracted from the crisis that are actually killing us.
how fucking dare you disregard the distraction? it’s like they can’t fathom anyone who doesn’t chase the tennis ball, they can’t imagine what someone would do without the soap opera of sports to occupy their lives.
I’ve lived in the south my entire life, and honestly don’t care for most sports. I hate to admit it, but this meme is 100% true.
Countless times I’ve been chatting with people in social situations and someone inevitably asks me who I think will win “the big game”… I like to think of myself as an honest person so I would always say something along the lines of “sorry, I don’t really follow sports” and said person, who was JUST talking to me like we were old friends, will suddenly look at me like I had a turd sticking out of my pocket.
Football really is like a religion down here. Honestly it’s probably more important to a lot people than religion. People act like a loved one died when their favorite team loses. It’s super weird lol
Okie here. It’s hard not being all the fuck about sports. I like football. I played football in school. But it doesn’t constitute the majority of my personality. My granddad ALWAYS has OU games on. It doesn’t matter if they’re #2 or #22 or got beat by Kansas. It doesn’t matter if they’re playing in the Rose Bowl or the Clorox™ Toilet Bowl. He’s practically consumed by it. I don’t understand it. I love going to the games. You go for the long walk in a loud crowd to end up inside and overpay for a shitty beer that gets warm in five minutes (because it’s 97 degrees), and after enduring all that, your guys might still lose. It actually kinda rocks.
But I prefer concerts. I get to dance to my favorite songs and watch my favorite aging 90s rockers put on a show for cheap because they haven’t been big in 20 years. A concert hardly goes south. But nobody shows up to the water cooler on Monday and goes, “How about that Weezer concert?”
It gets pretty awkward having to tell people you didn’t watch the game because sports is just not important to you.
You can make a game out of it. I once had a colleague who mastered it: didn’t care too much about most sports but knew which colleague liked which sport and which team. So he checked scores and every time a colleague’s favorite team lost he innocently asked at work how the game was. It’s risky since people can get really emotional about it but it’s usually lots of fun.
I would never be able to remember all of that lol
Which you usually had, but they don’t have to be RUDE about it!
bread and circuses to keep the masses distracted from the crisis that are actually killing us.
how fucking dare you disregard the distraction? it’s like they can’t fathom anyone who doesn’t chase the tennis ball, they can’t imagine what someone would do without the soap opera of sports to occupy their lives.