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Psychology of People Who Don't Obsess Over Sports
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- Published on Mar 13, 2026
- Why do some people feel completely indifferent toward sports while others build their entire identity around it? In this video, we explore the psychology of people who don’t obsess over sports, breaking down the mental frameworks, personality traits, and behavioral patterns that shape this perspective.
From social identity theory to intrinsic motivation, this deep psychological analysis explains why not everyone connects with sports culture, competition, or fandom. We examine how values, upbringing, cognitive preferences, and emotional investment influence whether someone becomes a passionate sports fan or remains entirely disengaged.
This video is ideal for viewers interested in psychology, human behavior, personality types, mindset differences, sociology, and modern culture. If you’ve ever wondered why sports don’t excite you-or why others can’t imagine life without them. This breakdown provides clarity backed by psychological principles.
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In this video, you’ll learn:
The psychology behind not caring about sports
Personality traits linked to low sports engagement
How identity and culture influence sports obsession
Logical vs emotional thinking patterns
Why some people prefer intellectual or creative pursuits
The social pressure surrounding sports fandom
Whether you’re analyzing yourself or trying to understand others, this video offers insightful, research-driven explanations that challenge mainstream assumptions about sports obsession and human motivation.
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Wann, D. L., & Grieve, F. G. (2005). "Biased evaluations of in-group and out-group spectator behavior at sporting events: The importance of team identification and threats to social identity." Journal of Social Psychology, 145(5), 531-545.
Tok, S. (2011). The Big Five Personality Traits And Risky Sport Participation. Social Behavior and Personality: an international journal, 39(8), pp.1105-1111. doi:doi.org/10.222....
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Me too, I couldn’t care less.
Make a video about females who absolutely hate it when their husband plays video games. Almost all women do. Anything else isn't a problem, but seeing the man with a controller enjoying himself they're going for war. She or her man scrolling 5 hours on a couch on the telephone? NO problem. Watching 3 movies? NO problem. Doing nothing and look stupid out of the eyes for a full day? NO problem! The sound of a Playstation turning on? Full blown war.
Me too.
I hate watching other people torture themselves over a game of football. It’s all to do with the lazy fat couch potatoes watching someone else torture themselves for a lot of money.
Or pay $9000 for a ticket. (Super Bowl)
I walk through Costco alone during football. It's fantastic.
You found the glitch in the matrix as well 🤝 Gamedays are magical days for errands
Local Costco is being built now, but yea def shopping time for me as all the sports clowns are busy watching the game that overpays the players....
Hahaha same here in Québec. I plan Costco shopping during Montreal Canadiens NHL games. It's the best. 👍
Ah, that hadn't occurred to me. Thanks for the tip! :)
I realized this in baton rouge working retail during a LSU game 😂.
I don’t mind if people like watching sports. What I do mind is when people act or tell me I’m weird for not watching sports.
Soo agree!
Same
Same here, so glad you posted that!
When I lived in Pittsburgh and people would ask if I caught “the game” I would just say I was from New England (true) so I didn’t follow the Steelers. That they could accept. If I just flat out said I didn’t follow football at all they would look at me like I had two heads.
It’s like how some religious people can understand if you go to a different church, but are blown away if you tell them you are not religious at all.
Couldn't stand the attitude in high school of if you're not into sports then what are you?
It's the same as people who obsess over celebrities. I've never understood why people get so wrapped up in the personal lives of people they will never meet and who will never know they exist, much less befriend them. It's so bizarre to me.
Right. Why do we need to know what the Kardashians are up to? Lol
Amen! I have also never understood the obsession for celebrities ~ they have to flush the toilet, too ~ who cares what they do? Now, if someone does something good, good for them, but again, why should I obsess over it? I have my own life and times to live, and I have children and grandchildren to care about, my own projects and goals to accomplish ~ I literally have zero headspace for celebrities/ sports/ tribalism. I have too much to do and get done!
@CarolsCurrentObsession The difference is their sh** will sell for a Million bucks, but we can't give ours away, lol.
Hard agree on the celebrities thingy. I find that a strange quirk of those people. I couldn't care less about celebrities, like I call actors by the screen name from whatever I last saw them because in 99% of cases I don't know their name. I may have heard their name before but I can't put a face to it.
I agree about why people obsess over celebrities.
I don't get it.
I don't have a "better-half" or any friends that follow celebrities that I know of.
Maybe people who obsess over celebrities lack close family ties?
Who knows. Probably a psychologist.
This video gave me a dopamine release. I feel I have bond with the other commenters.
yes, we find it here. it's the same social being logic at play
Your vibe attracts your tribe 🙂
Yes
A bunch of bitter uncoordinated nerds hating on fit talented millionaires that give us positive entertainment. If you suck at sports just say that and keep it moving. Sports is great for society. It would make more sense hating on companies that sell us booze, cigarettes, junk food, porn and such. But hating sports is ridiculous!
I laughed so hard. I'm picturing all these uptight narcissistic nerds sitting there just blowing their loads over the dumbest video on this website.
When people ask me about “the game” I have no idea what they’re talking about…
Come on! You know....The Game! 🤣
Guess what?...
...You just lost The Game.
Same here lol
I tend to think "Warcraft" when friends say "the game" lol
I just lost the game
I have never felt apologetic about my disinterest in sports.
I told my co-workers that I thought that sports are for dumb people's amusement. They were women so it was a safe assertion. They were often irritated by their SO's sports obsession.
I still doubt the sanity of sports fanatics, it is just as alien to me as is my love of reading, cooking, gardening, animals and nature...
Yeah same. First up my brain seems to lack the tribal triggers and shit, I don't know why maybe it's my autism. But also out of all the forms of entertainment I find sport the least engaging because it's not communicating anything. All art is a form of expression and the artist is trying to express and say something. Not sports. There's no wider message in a game other than these people got more ball scores and like, okay but why should I care?
Uninterest or lack of interest….disinterest is impartiality, not favouring one side over another as in a judge in a court case…..you’re welcome 😂
To be honest I find watching sports too boring. Learned in my teens that music and reading was way more exciting than watching sports. Why would need to apologise when I’m DOING SOMETHING, instead of watching?
@mirkovic because if you're not watching then you're not seeing the ads. There's products to consume.
The fact that it's even part of "major" news everyday is beyond crazy to me.
True. News should consist of "what affects the most people in the world today". Start there and work your way down. Sports would be at or near the bottom.
@snowrocketWhat? Stop being stupid! Sports is one of the things that affects people in the world the most!
News is just sports and tribalism these days. It fits in
@tomomihisayayour attitude says a lot 😂.
Go follow the crowd and leave others alone who don't share your view!
Well at least for the most part the sports news is true unlike all the other news in the front of a newspaper or covered by CNN and MSNBC We can verify that the scores are what they say they are.. Sports is what keeps some newspapers in business.
The same with people who wear branded clothes.
I do wear branded clothes but they come from Goodwill and they cost me $3 and I don't treat the brand as my father and holy ghost.
@MrWolfSnackThat's a really clever way. Nice life hack.
Underrated comment.
u mean u dont like paying 10x the actual value so that u get the privilege of being a walking ad for them? /s
@lestercheng1454😂😂
“WE WON!” Vs “They lost” says volumes.
Yeah 😂. What’s this “we”? You on the team?
😂👍
It’s tribalism it also makes sense since many sports teams represent an area and have deep rivalries with other teams for cultural reasons.
To be fair a lot of them says we lost.
There are at least two key factors in this, both covered in Influence by Cialdini, who has decades of academic and professional experience.
1. People with a "poorly formed" sense of self or those who have recently experienced a personal failure are the most likely to BIRG. If you don't have many achievements of your own to showcase, you are more likely to lean heavily on the achievements of your "connections". Also see self-serving bias.
2. According to the Principle of Association, we instinctively dislike people who are associated with bad news-even if they didn't cause it. Weathermen and messengers sharing bad news both suffer.
Before those of us with strong-self image throw too many stones, we should recognize that we live in a society where #2 applies to most social interactions.
I never understood why people would get so worked up over a game they aren't playing!
Right. If they really love the game, get into shape and start playing recreationally. It will even give them more appreciation for the pro's when they do watch. But all they do is watch and get in worse shape. I don't get it.
Gambling is one reason lol. I have friends that I grew up with, who had no interest in sports. Now they’re gambling addicts who have started following football after finding out they can gamble on it.
I hate watching sports on tv. But if someone asks me to go play soccer, tennis or whatever, I will be happy to play.
Think about it - they're so stressed up in their lives from work and so on, so watching sports is a way to 'de-stress' for them. It is like why some people would de-stress by playing games and getting all riled up taking it so seriously.
One thing's for sure though... How they react (whether is it in sports, watching sports, computer games, and so on) reveals their character a lot.
If they love to thrash talk to their competitors or to other players, it means they will do so too in their personal or work life.
If they get very aggressive when their team loses - sore loser trait - it will also be the same in their life. If you or your kid is doing better than them/theirs, they will get pissy and toxic too. Or if their boss compliments others than them, they will get very upset. That toxic overly competitive trait.
I can confirm this after many, many experiences.
because they are morons ..
I think i feel more familial bond with the people commenting here than I do with people who are sports fans.
Same fam
I am one of those people who don’t like watching sports. I am a techie guy and like computer stuff, video games, and know how to build a computer. Love reading books, and Bible study. Sport is pretty much boring to me
Would rather work a jigsaw puzzle than watch sports. Just different avenues for that same dopamine boost, I guess.
LOLLL yeah, this pretty much
I have no idea who are the major sports celebrities or teams these days. The last ones I remember are....uh ...Joe dimagio who married Marilyn. And I don't think SHE knew anything about sports either. The only thing about sports that I like is it's a good reason for drinking lots of beer. But unfortunately, my family has condemned me to a no-drinkin shit house. 😮😢
In South Africa this is Rugby and I never got it. I even worked at a pub and was great at the job because I could not care less about the game so could focus on good service and getting tips.
Haven't watched a ball game since High School, and I'm over 80!
I went to every game in high school because my FRIENDS were playing. I have never understood sports fans attachment to professional teams that billionaires employ millionaires to play in a city that they have no loyalty to. It seems just naive! I'm 75 and I have never watched a professional team play a game on television.
We all know sports weren't invented that far back!😂
I'm 59 and never watched a ball game.
@jeffharper7579I’m 36 and I can say with certainty that I’ve never watched an entire game. But I’ve been to a couple games. Football, baseball. My dad worked for a very large company and it seems they appeased their employees by giving them tickets to sports events. (Probably instead of bonuses).
@leefi1 I am blown away at how much friends and co-workers pay for sports. From the tickets, to the playoff tickets and the special ESPN channels, pay-per-view and tailgate parties. It's literally many thousands of dollars a year. One friend is in the 5 figures with his special seats, pregame access, special clothing, and practice season seats, and that's a small town university team! I figure that's the reason that I paid off my house and retired at age 56. Different (and cheaper) activities gave me a lot more flexibility. Excuse me, I'm off to Europe now.
Always loved playing sports but could never stand watching sports.
Same. "My Team" are the teams I played on. Then hearing everyone that watch sports say stuff like "My Team" of a team that could give a rats arse who they are, is dumbfounding. Congrats on buying their merch though I guess...
Exactly
Same for me.
Like televised golf?
I do while others watch. I played team sports in high school, I found it to be an incredibly toxic environment. My favorite athletic pastimes are mountain biking and snowboarding.
One year, someone asked my mother, “Who does your family want to win the Super Bowl?” Seriously, my mother said, “Oh, I don’t know. We don’t watch Baseball.” We have never been a sports family.
Lmao. Ik the basics about sports, but I can’t stand sports obsessed people so I just troll them with lines like, “Football? That’s the one with home runs right?”
Or if someone sinks a 3 pointer in basketball, “Dang! Did you see him make that hole in one?!” 😂
Suddenly, I like your mom even more and I've never met her.
I am looking forward to full-contact golf. Those clubs can be deadly.
Perfect response - even if you do know better than that, it's a perfect way of saying how little you care.
My response sometimes is "I used to watch the National Advertising Championships as they used to be really entertaining. But lately (due to changing sensibilities and changing audience demographic) they're all boring now. And there's too many damn Handegg breaks."
I’m not going to lie, I can get into watching a super cup once in awhile
Ok so where can I find more of these people so we can appreciate art and nature together?
I thought I was the only one..thank god I am not alone! great video✨
Yeah me too I thought i was the only one I was ashamed, thank goodness I'm not the only one, 😅😅😅😅
We're just smarter.
Same
Glad it resonated!
Same here
I never understood being emotionally invested in someone's else's accomplishments when I can be celebrating my own.
So you wouldn’t be proud of your country winning in sport?
@jakewu7834no
@jakewu7834No why would I care about my country winning sports lol
This is my standpoint.
@jakewu7834 It's not "your country" who wins, it's some random athlete who happens to "run" for a certain country. The only reason I might care about that person is if I knew him or her personally, because otherwise this has no effect on my life and also I have no reason to be "proud" because it is no achievement of my own. It's nice for that athlete and he/she should be proud of their achievement, of course, but I'd rather be proud of my personal achievements.
When I was divorced I was heartbroken, but I couldn’t help but be relieved that I didn’t have to go to any more football games. When I started dating I avoided avid sports fans. It’s just not how I wanted to spend an afternoon.
The last time I went to a game was 1990 on a date. It was like torture. Cold, sitting on metal bleachers in the shade for hours, and people spilling beer on me. Never again!
Yes!! I would find it so unattractive if I started dating someone and they turn out to be a huge football fan or sth.
This!!!! 100%
My husband now could care less about sports and it is perfect
How relieved was your ex?
@lessthanbug Haha, you realize that your other comments on this video are shown when someone clicks on your profile, right? We can see you getting offended by people calling out your obsession with men in shorts and uniform. Relax, dude. You can keep spending $$$ to pay for sports channels and paraphernalia for guys who are banging hookers and doing coke and making way more than you ever will, and will also never acknowledge your existence. Sounds a bit like masochism now, doesn’t it?
I never understood watching others play a sport when I could be outside playing that sport
Same, but I don't know why. I also love video games but would rather get kicked in the nuts than watch someone play a video game.
However I also love cooking and love watching people cook. I also hate camping but love watching camping videos.
I have no idea what the distinction is lol
The beautiful irony is if people spent even a fraction of their time actually playing sports instead of binging highlight plays on ESPN, our country's obesity rate would probably plummet.
I watch football because it entertains me because I know how hard it ia to play football and how well those players play it. Their skills entertain me just like Gary Oldman's acting skill entertains me and how Arctic Monkey's skill entertains me as well. You need to think outside of your dumb bubble and not be an idiot.
@M@MMAFOOTBALLGUYn I'm such an idiot, I never thought it entertained people before.... I realize it entertains people you idiot , I just can't relate to being entertained by it. It's just other people playing a sport to me. Maybe you need to get outside your bubble MMA football guy or have you been hit in the head too much?
@MMAFOOTBALLGUY Bases his entire personality around watching grown men play glorified kid's yard games and then has the nerve and lack of self awareness to call someone else an idiot. Most intelligent ball worshipper.
Playing sports is fun.
Watching sports is absolutely boring 😅
agreed
Agreed
Totally agree. Im from 🇬🇧 and live in the 🇺🇸. People always ask me which soccer team i support. I can’t stand soccer. ⚽️. I have never watched it. I couldn’t care less about it.
@adamr9720 I'm from the 🇺🇸 but have lived in 🇬🇧. I don't know if it's actually a sport, but I learned to really have fun when playing darts. Though, I don't do it often now.
Yes, and not watching sports freed up my Sundays, back in the day.
The only reason I care about when our really popular local team plays is so I know what time to go shopping 😂
I do doordash and it gets busy events like sports games so I go out to work during that time.
Best shopping day…………Super Bowl day!!!!!!
Yep, we make our once a year trip to bass pre shops on Superbowl weekend.
The freeways and the shop are darn near deserted
Same here. During the post-season Vikings games, the Twin Cities IKEA is virtually empty.
Smart😂👍
I once had a coworker tell me athletes were heros. I laughed and said a hero does things for others safety and well being. How does a millionaire in shiny spandex pants throwing a football to other millionaires a hero? She was stunned. You could tell she never thought of that. 😅
I can’t imagine thinking an athlete is on the level of a doctor, surgeon, or scientist who discovers the cure for an incurable disease. Or Superman.
We are very much the same. Many athletes are simply born big, or tall. While many do have great talent, a lot of it involves the size they were born with. I much prefer to think about a talented musician, he has worked hard to learn his instrument, he makes something beautiful that brings joy to many. And musicians aren’t in competition, there’s plenty of room at the top for so many talented musicians. I fully understand that both earn a living the same way. How many tickets can you sell? Athlete or musician, they get paid according to how many tickets they sell. But for whatever reason, I can not get excited about any athletic endeavor. Especially now days, when players are free agents, and they might play for your favorite team, and next year they’ll play against your favorite team. They have no loyalty whatsoever, they go wherever the biggest offer is. So why should I support a team, when the players on that team have no loyalty to it? And, I guess I really didn’t get along with cocky jocks in school either, so why on earth would I support people like that? I think a lot of people watch football in particular just to fit in, to be able to talk about that big game at work. I really don’t care if I fit in at work either. And I usually don’t.
@alphagt62 Most people who excel at ANY profession have a genetic predisposition to the traits that help success in that profession.
Great to read some intelligent responses. It's insulting to the true heroes of the world when someone who can kick a leather ball around a paddock is referred to as a hero. In another era they'd be court jesters.
I think she want to have their babies so, they can chase animals down for meat to feed her. The smart one just design and built an automatic bow and arrow machine gun and just sit back and shoot! We don't have to worry about breaking our leg and get eating during the chase.
First 2 minutes, basically describing women and feminine men, which is completely true
Don't gotta be a fag to think sports and sports fan are gay as fuck.
Reading through some of these comments and I'm wondering, "Did I actually just find my community?"
Hell yeah, you did \0/
I feel the same😂
We did 😂
I think i did
😂 can relate!
0:45 I just find watching sports sooooo boring watching it brings me no joy
Used to watch football nowadays the refees will pull flag is a wide receiver is touched. It might as well be flag football.
I would rather watch a foreign film, play guitar, or listen to music; or make something in my shop.
Exactly! I love exercise or playing sports but watching other people doing sports? I dont get it.
Yup.
@paulgrieger8182Literally could not be more performative lol
I never associated competition with joy.
Same!
Same here!
For me it's always fight or flight
Me too. I never cared to win.
From what I’ve seen, a lot of people into sports are also into heavy drinking. And of course, the majority of them appear to be extroverts.
Ah yes, my favourite dopamine source "Gambaling". Thanks AI!
I caught that too.
Never understood the mania surrounding sports. I was also absolutely sickened that 18 million tax dollars were spent building a football field at a local high school.
This is where it's really "Jumped the Shark" in my opinion. It's ridiculous that our property taxes are being used for million dollar high school athletic stadiums and gyms.
@scottmichaels12 And hundred million dollar stadiums that some team demands, and then a decade or two later it gets demolished as "outdated" or they want a NEWER one!
Crowd control and mass anger management. In Roman times emperors made damn sure that they invested in their games! Nothing has changed!
Totally agree. I don't care if other people like sports, but I don't like it when sports (even their mere existence) become my problem in any way, much less when I have to pay for it in some way or other.
And if you think that's bad, it was even worse when I was in college. The entire school's identity was focused on their sports teams, they imply that to be a student there is to be a member of that sports "tribe," at my school they called us all "Rams." Millions of dollars spent on a new stadium (and think of how high tuition is), and all the school facilities shut down during games. School felt like a sports franchise with a side gig in education. I didn't want any of that, I just wanted to go to class and get a degree!
I can see the reason for it though - they were trying to build tribalistic loyalty among students and alumni. And it works, sports fans are still loyal to their schools decades later, have stickers on their cars, wear the shirts, are more likely to hire fellow alumni, join alumni organizations, encourage their kids to go there, donate money, and so on. While I, not a sports fan, felt like any affiliation I had with that school was done the moment I had my degree, see it as a place I once paid money to receive a service. I feel more loyalty to my high school (at the time they had Ultimate Frisbee as their only sport, they didn't take it seriously, I was on the team myself, which was only possible because they didn't take it seriously) and the community college I went to before university (I think they had some club-level sports?), because I felt like those places actually focused on meaningful education rather than sports, and perhaps community-focused things not centered on sports.
@scottmichaels12don't they only do that in states full of idiots like Texas? they definitely don't do it where I am in the northeast.
It is crazy how "I love sports" means "I love watching people do sports" for most people
I mean it takes at least 22 people to play a game of football. Which sounds like a lot of fun but I don’t know 22 people.
@rustyshackelford7118 my middle schoolers play with fewer than a dozen people each recess. Maybe your bar is too high.
@EmilyBoBemily yes, at recess as a kid you can play football on a smaller scale. Most sports fans did this, now they watch it on tv.
@rustyshackelford7118 Ever heard of clubs?
@alexpodcastaccount Like a football club? Never heard of one. My brother was in an amateur league but that’s still pretty competitive, not for just anyone.
Maybe this is a hot take but I think naps are more exciting than sports.
DITT😴! Haha!
You aren't alone
Watching paint dry is more entertaining! 😂
Naps are the best!!
I like to nap during F1 races. The middle of the race is all about strate -- zzz zzzz... (It's fun to watch the recaps about how the strategies worked out, overtakes and all the like.)
The beginning and end are where all the action happens, it seems.
I always said that professional sports is the opiate of the masses
It's a distraction from what really matters - like warfare.
im one of them….i consider watching someone else playing an utter waste of my personal time…..its just useless…
"I completely understand where you're coming from! 😅 Everyone has different interests, and it's great to focus on what truly engages you. What activities do you enjoy that feel more fulfilling?"
@MidwestUnsolvedFiles I think same. I prefer going to the gym and spending mine time on lifting waights.
@evan-du3vk ya I used to love playing sports as a kid, and played a bunch. But as an adult I have no care to watch others play a sport.
Yes. Would anyone ever pay big money to watch someone else paint a wall? Or watch even if it was free?
Ok, possibly if it concerned your own child, but I don't think that's comparable, right!?
I'm not obsessed with sports either, but I disagree with your take, however, you're free to believe what you want.
A lot of people act like there's something wrong with me. I'd rather watch grass grow or paint dry than to sit and watch sports. I'm glad to see that there's others like me.
Indeed! 😊
Amen.
Ok but that is fucking weird.
You’d rather watch literally grass grow, than watch humans in peak physical condition perform something they’ve spent their whole lives mastering?
@s@siryoda200 oh no the people who hate fun and community are getting mad💀
@JR-ol9pcHave you ever heard of hyperbole?
I'd rather watch grass grow than sports.
"Totally get that! 😂 Sometimes the simplest things can be way more interesting. Thanks for sharing your perspective! What do you enjoy watching instead?"
I tell people " I'd rather watch paint dry than sports"
they completely lose thier minds lol
I'd rather eat ground glass and stick pins in my eyes.
Me too. Especially football. Or sitting at a bar being interrupted by screaming drones
Agreed, or rather watch water drop from a leaf. Its more entertaining than sports.
“ ‘We won! We won!” No, they won. You were just watching.’ - Jerry Seinfeld.
My mother- in -law thought it was absurd that "grown men are chasing a ball".
I think sports is fine I think becoming a sports fanatic and having to watch the games and spend lots of money and identify with the team believing that is part of your identity is ridiculous but to each their own. It also trains people for taking sides, and identifying with whatever side you take such as politics. It’s a form of mass hypnosis, but the players themselves that’s fine kicking up all is an activity that’s healthy. I wouldn’t criticize someone who knits, or someone who jogs, it’s not the players- it’s the groupies.
I'd rather see grown men chase a cheese wheel. Please tell me you've seen the downhill cheese chase or whatever it's called lol
SHE SOUNDS NASTY MINDED.
Men like to play with their balls - it's true!
There is nothing wrong with playing sports. That is great for you in many ways. The problem comes when someone who doesn't play sports invests all of his self worth into a million dollar franchise that only want to manipulate him to keep him watching.
Another thing that soured me on sports was seeing the "sports stars" of the school being treated like literal royalty to the point of their heads blowing up AND having free reign to do WHATEVER they wanted without any consequence. While we no bodies had to walk on egg shells to keep from getting in trouble. Seeing those same "sports stars" from school that had the reading comprehension of a slug and were lucky to spell their own name correctly get into colleges and get degrees - then get hired into high paying jobs just added insult to injury.
Speaking of spelling and reading comprehension, it's free reign*
@travisbashore Thank you
@travisbashoredon't forget your period at the end of the sentence when correcting someone else's grammar.
High scoring test kids get that. Corporate leaders get that. Politicians get that. It isn’t just sports people that get social benefits.
That's so messed up
I hear Charlie Browns teacher talking whenever people talk about sports🫠
LOL me too and i go hummm interesting hummmm" then my mind goes back to the la la land where I hear bla bla la bla and my mind goes to hearing Charlie Brown teacher talking and telling myself not to fall a asleep LOL
😂 Exactly
Mess with them by calling out the wrong scoring system. Football = home run.
Baseball = goal
Basketball = also home run
Yesssss!!!
I can respect someone’s dedication to be able to throw a ball, catch a ball, or play a game with great mastery, but to dwell on it at all is quite odd. In a different time, it is an analog to having mastered some aspect of combat or warfare, which is truly commendable from a biological standpoint, but to have mastered a game - while in a way impressive - is really just a tremendous waste of time.
I think you hit a key point of people that really don’t care or aren’t obsessed with sports just haven’t felt the camaraderie amongst the fans. I’ve been to different cities and have become instant bonds with random strangers. I never knew in my life yet the team in itself brought us together and we enjoyed our day. A lot of introverts do not understand that, and are not open to socialize with the world. This is a very common thing in the USA because they just spend a lot of time by themselves or at home and don’t spend enough time outside touching grass.
I have traveled to different countries to converse with locals to understand the cultural differences and have fun with experces I can't have at home. However sports don't interest me at all. Not sure if it has to do with being an introvert.
Someone at work asked me what kind of hobbies I have since I don't watch sports or gamble on them. You've got to be absolutely clueless about the world to think those are all the hobbies I could possibly have.
Gooning
They can't imagine that someone might *participate* in sports (or a non-competitive athletic activity like bicycling, jogging, etc), *creative* or *enriching* activities (art, reading, education), or *actually-social* activities that aren't about watching other people hurt each other.
Whats funny is spiritual awakened people are the main ones this video is aimed at. But you people are a bunch of self obsessed twats who think you are the best. People can spend their time as they wish
What do you do? 😊
Me personally I spend a lot of my free time learning things. I always have several projects I’m working on, or ideas I’m thinking about and researching. Most involve things like home improvement, or business, or health, or problems I’m trying to solve, or 100’s of things. The list goes on and on.
Now I understand why 60 percent of people I find are difficult to relate to! My spouse and I are both non-sports fanatics, and neither one of us is into watching/tracking sports. We like DOING some sports, but not watching others play some game on TV. We would rather be out and about exploring, learning, etc.
Well said!
I don't even own a TV. I get my fix learning about growing food
It’s always been weird to me that obese people would sit on the couch and watch complete strangers engage in athletics.
Tennis, god watching it is about the most boring thing you can do. Playing it is fun.
Learning is seen as stupid/boring in the United States...that's why people who read for fun are always referred to as "bookworms" or "poindexters" .....why is reading linked to something disgusting like a worm? Like reading is a derogatory activity....
I just can’t comprehend linking my emotional wellbeing to a group of individuals whose actions I have no control over.
Precisely.
I have an ex that was out of his mind regarding "his teams." Yes, multiple. He'd be in a sour mood for a phukking week over "his team losing." Oh get the phuck outta here. I guess we met when it was off season because he was so smart, funny and I really enjoyed being around him...till I guess football started up. I like a good game, I'm a hockey person myself but I will watch ANY game that is exciting, doesn't matter who is playing--people on TV or the neighborhood kids down the park. But to fall into a medical depression over it is just completely psychotic to me.
who don't even know you exist and never will 🤣
Think I found my crowd of people inna comments 😂🤞🏾✊🏾💯🤙🏾‼️
Somebody said: “I thought alligators wearing playin football, that peaked my interest for a moment” 🐊 🏈 🤣🤦🏾♂️
"It's literally addictive." Yeah, that is quite clear while observing family members watching sports during the holidays.
And now that they've legalized sports gambling in my state (and others), it comes with double the addictive potential!
the exact same mindset applies to politics, but that's even worse
the exact same mindset applies to politics, but that's even worse
@FrequSpectra Politics is important, though, which makes people who treat it like sports extremely dangerous.
We need a study to see if watching sports kills brain cells. I've always suspected it does. Hopefully society evolves.
As someone interested in the intersection between anthropology and psychology this is catnip for my soul.
It's AI catnip video.
Congratulations on needing AI to confirm your suspicions about why you think you’re superior to the people around you and being unable to detect the most blatant AI slop, you boomer
i think this is more sociology. 💯🔥🤣
It just so happens that the intersection of psychology and anthropololgy is one of the biggest circuses of purely speculative straw grasping masquerading as scientific process
This video brought back a memory I rarely talk about. Growing up, I was the only one in my family who didn’t care about sports. Every weekend, the house would be loud with cheers or frustration, and I would quietly retreat to my room with a book, a notebook, or just my thoughts. I remember once being asked, “Why don’t you care? Don’t you feel anything?”
At the time, I felt ashamed. Like something was missing in me. But the truth was, I felt everything-just differently. While everyone else was riding the emotional highs and lows of a game, I was deeply moved by music, by late-night conversations, by watching someone I loved slowly heal from a hard season in their life. Those moments didn’t come with jerseys or trophies, but they mattered to me in a way sports never could.
Years later, I realized I wasn’t empty. I was present. I wasn’t detached. I was investing my emotions where I could actually show up, where my care could change something, even if it was small. This video didn’t just explain psychology-it felt like permission. Permission to be different, to stop apologizing for not screaming at a screen, and to finally understand that I was never broken. I was just playing a different game.
You owe no explanations; the poetic mind sees and hears deeply, albeit it is both a blessing and a bane depending on the intensity coming from the innermost door you fling open. In know this to be true.
chatgpt ahh response
Beautifully put thank you
@palanquinlindaunot every “deep” response is AI generated. ☠️ some people actually still possess the ability to be more philosophical. Unfortunate that everything has to now be measured against AI before it’s believed as genuine and authentic.
You sound like you have a truly beautiful soul. Wish more people appreciated this. I was the same way.. though honestly I’d just get annoyed at how obnoxiously loud everyone was. I’m sorry you were made to feel ashamed of having different interests.. in my personal opinion, there is far more value in being content in individualism than being consumed by a hive mind.
I don't watch sports myself but I feel like many (not all) people commenting don't actively play sports either. I'm heavily into martial arts and basketball and seeing the top level expressions of my interests is fascinating. The fact some people can't fathom that as an obvious reason means ppl here have superiority complex. You guys can totally work on yourself and watch sports at the same time, ya know that right?
Cool story lil’ bro
Hilarious that my ad for this was for sports betting 😂
I hypothesise about the deeply entwined link between sports betting and sports obsession. 😂
I thought I was the only one who doesn't care about sports at all. Glad to see I'm not the only one.
I grew up in a household where sports simply wasn't a priority. Nothing against it, just nothing for it. The same could not be said for many of my cousins.
As a retired sailor, I only care about the Army Navy game. Even then I get bored and just check the score.
You are more evolved.
You have plenty of company, I know some people that pretend to enjoy sports so they feel like they fit in
I feel the same. I have never understood the desire to win. I don't care who wins. Life is much more interesting than sport.
3:01 Well, no wonder he's disappointed, the picture on his TV is on the wrong side!
silly AI 😂
2026 Samsung, holographic reversible flat screen
@dglscnvr SHUSH!!!! Don't give them ideas! 🤣
😂😂😂😂😂😂
😂😂😂
My father in law finally dragged me to a football game last year (Tottenham vs another team I forget) and I was in complete awe and disbelief at how... invested the fans were.
Dated a guy for a short while that was obsessed with college football. Our first date was a football game. He was so obsessed that if his team lost he would literally be in a bad mood for a week until the next game! He couldn’t understand that I had no desire to watch football every Saturday. Needless to say, it didn’t last. And I’m good with that!
Some of the most ignorant people I have ever known were Sports Fans. Many highly intelligent people, including my own brother are Sports Fans. It's the ignorant ones that have influenced my entertainment tastes though. I am terrified that someone will think that I'm a Sports Fan.
Shared values create the vital bond that keeps a couple together.
U made the. Right move
You are BOTH better off.
He needed to get a life-he sounds like a pathetic loser.
When I was 5-6, my dad used to get so wrapped up and would ignore me, my brother and sister whenever football or basketball came on. Now I’m ‘meh’ anytime a game is on…
Remember my grandfather watched his fav football team match and they were totally humiliated with score 7:1. He was so pissed screaming bad words all the way, it was so funny.
My father's obsession with hockey made me hate and quit hockey.
@hematogen50g was that brazil vs Germany the 1-7 game?
I kind of knew why I didn’t obsess over sports. But you did a good job explaining why everyone else does.
Don’t know your reasons, mine is because I am clumsy and hate to have anything thrown at me, and do not catch .
Every time I check the news, HALF of it is sports.
The only teamwork I witnessed was bullying! Teamwork was about making someone feel bad! No thanks!
thats hilarious
If I were at a sports bar (for the chicken wings) and the Superbowl was on, I'd watch it while I ate.
But if I was done eating - and the game was tied with 30 seconds to go - I could walk out and never give it another thought.
Did you pay your bill before you walked out?
@dlg48081 Nope. Just waited until the ball was snapped and ran like hell.
@DrProgNerdthat's an expert level move.
Every year I buy boxes to gamble for the superbowl but I never have a clue who is playing or who won for that matter.
Every Super Bowl I never know which teams are playing. Who gives a rip?
Sports…………….it bores me to tears!
....especially Golf (yawn!) and
Football (fans literally screaming at the game on tv & get sht faced drunk; paint their faces & bodies to go to the stadium & scream at the whole game; and then 1/2 the fans are LIVID & violent when "their team" LOSES. Grow up! It's just a game. 1 team wins. 1 team doesn't.
And seriously, athletes shouldn't be making SEVERAL MILLIONS of $$$$$ EACH YEAR, just to play the sport.
@j@jnorway7295it’s just a game to you , and they dint make millions it’s mainly sponserships and you certainly don’t make that much if your not famous
Me too!! Omg
Yep correct
Do you like watching soap box races? I do even if i hate other sports like football, cricket etc
What scares me is I know people who can name every person on their Team and TEAM Rival for the past 10 years. BUT, have no idea who their politicians are. The politicians decide your taxes, decide what war you will fight in, what laws you will live under. The Millionaires running around the field can do NOTHING for or against you. Which should matter more?
The only thing worse than an uber sports fan is a politics fan... same "my team" mentality
It's called bread and circus.
Politics can also be a form of sport entertainment for too many. Make a difference in your local area.
Politicians are just as useless and wasteful as sports.
Politics is an even worse waste of brain cells than sports.
SuperBowl Sunday is the best time to go do something that is normally crowded 😂
I imagine hell is a sports bar during the Super Bowl
@lrlr_kks Tbf, a sports bar sounds like a hellish place to be any day of the week lol
Good day to bone dude's wives
Personally I've never been interested in watching sports, I think it's boring but I know that everyone has their taste, everyone is different
Especially American football, where nothing happens for over 90% of the time, and the plays are very short.
@MilesEdgeworth129 More hype than action.
I'm not.
I’d rather live my own life than watch someone else live theirs.
What gets me is when you hear people say "We did it! We're going to the Superbowl!' No, you didn't do anything except sit on your ass and scream at the TV.
Or when they say. We should pay £80m for X player. Dude you ain’t paying FA you poor af 😂
😂😂😂😂right
I'm sure a lot of them didn't sit on their asses, a lot of therm were on their knees praying to God for the win.
@sekovittol3124 🤣
Preach 💯 ✋ I always look at people with bewilderment when they expect me to share their enthusiasm. Uh, no thanks!
FACTS!: I emotionally detached myself from sports when I was 15. That was after realizing how those 11 players affected my life when they lost a game. I also realized if I died none of them would be sending me flowers. 🤔
And they get paid millions to do it
If you died, nobody is sending YOU flowers, they're sending them to your family. 😁
I just never got into them, my family was never that into spectator sports, we prefer to actually do stuff instead of watching people do stuff. That's not to say I don't enjoy going to a stadium and seeing a game in person, but it's more for the experience of going to the stadium than the game itself.
And the idea that non-sports interested people are boring it was always ridiculous to me. If anything it's the sports obsessed people who are boring. All they wanna do is talk about whatever team they're obsessed with and the stats and the players and their fantasy football league.
You could not pay me to care about any of these things, mostly because they have no direct impact on my life and do nothing to improve society as a whole (yes I know how arrogant that sounds shut the fuck up). I am much more interested in new ideas and information.
I spend most of my time watching educational scientific, historical, medical and social commentary videos on RUclips or discussing these things in person with my friends. And most of the people I know who are really into sports struggle to hold a conversation with me about these topics whether it's because they are uneducated on them or simply disinterested.
I also find that people who are obsessed with sports also tend to be incredibly political and very much one side or the other, going back to the whole tribalism thing. They seem to really get swept up in the whole cult of personality while failing to see what's actually going on behind the curtain. Meanwhile I am kind of in the middle, I detest both sides equally for similar and opposing reasons. Which means that in the mind of those prone to partisanship I am obviously in favor of the guy they hate and hate the guy they like, which pisses me off to no one because no fuck them and fuck you I don't want anything to do with any of this shit you're fucking crazy
@kevinh5983 there is no family.
I’ve never been interested in sports - I’m not a team player and hate team sports.
Ditto!💯
Ditto😊
At 66 I have never owned or wore anything with a sports logo. Also I have never understood most people’s insatiable need to belong to a group.
GO TEAM! Please...just go.
Oddly enough I played sports in high school and enjoyed it for the physical activity, but hate watching sports and find it boring.
walk through school alone during football. It's fantastic
Never understood the obsession with sport personally !
Its just lack of own hobbys and interest of thos folks, together with the need of social acceptance to not be excluded.
It's betting and gambling.
It's just humans doubling down on herd "mentality". Yeah, I watched the video. It was illuminating, and it also reinforced my opinion of screeching tribalistic primates.
@xraison44 Agree, that’s exactly what it is !
It's fascinating to read all these takes. I'm a PE/Gym Teacher with plenty of hobbies & sporadic obsessions throughout the year (s) . I've always felt disinterest in watching sports growing up, fell asleep watching my 1st baseball game... I much rather watch my own students participate in sports competitions, as it springs up personal admiration & they also get a jolt of joy from having support. The tribal media sports thing is different, and to each their own.
“Give them bread and a circus and they’ll never revolt”
-someone who was smarter than the masses
Juvenal was his name and he was 100% correct!
This!
We pour trillions into it.
While nurses, doctors, teachers
the hands that hold society together
are left without the admiration or gratitude they deserve.
I really dislike our global society….the concept of worshipping “celebrities” is crazy to me.
Never understood and don’t want to understand
Yes this is exactly it.
Wow entertained people are happy, only the deepest of thoughts here
Friends often say to me “I know you hate football but …” to which I reply that I don’t hate football, I simply fail to notice it. My son is the same and so was my father.
I guess i don't hate football. I just hate the fact that it get shoved in our faces ad nauseum like we're actually supposed to care about it or something.
I once had a taxi driver who couldn't believe I wasn't into football (there was a national game on that night).
He was totally exasperated, shaking his head in disbelief, then the killer question....'Well, what are you into then?'.
When I replied that I liked music, walking, nature, books, art, and history (especially Roman/medieval) he said 'Is that it?'...😅.
I'm not an intellectual by any means, I have a manual job, and didn't get any further than a secondary school education, I jist don't like sports.
Same
Ditto!
I don't understand the obsession with sports, nor the disbelief in people that are not into it.
"That's such a relatable story! 😂 It’s funny how some people can’t wrap their heads around different interests. It sounds like you have a rich appreciation for life outside of sports! Music, nature, and history are all amazing passions. Everyone has their own unique tastes, and that diversity makes conversations so interesting! What’s your favorite book or historical topic?"
My wife graduated from UT Austin when they won a national championship and didn't know they won. She went to a high school that won 3 state titles, in Texas, in a row and she told me she never attended a game.
Me not liking sports has been the biggest barrier in making friends.
When i first meet a stranger, the topic of conversation constantly turns to sports. I literally have to say "other than knowing the basic concepts/rules of sports, I know nothing about any teams, recent games or anything."
This usually results in the other person to walk away or stumble out of the conversation and dismiss themselves
I’m think men follow sports so they have something to talk about. ⭐️
You really don't need "friends" like that. They are phoney and shallow.
That sounds miserable. ☠️ I hope you’ll find a more like minded community that better suits you.. most of my closest friends couldn’t care less about sports. They might have some appreciation for some aspects, but sports almost never enter the conversation. I hope you find your people. They’re out there.
Ive never once thought about making friends. I always thought it happens generically. Interesting.
My wife and I sometimes enjoy visiting other couples for fellowship
But unfortunately most guys only know about sports
They’re totally ignorant of any other topic…so conversation with them is limited
I won’t go back the next time
I only enjoy sports in person.
Id usually never watch a nhl game. but when i was there in person, i was invested. I even stood up and cheered with the rest of the crowd when our team won.
Did you go by yourself or with friends? I don't ever really choose to watch sports on TV, but I do enjoy going to live games with my friends. But for me it's all about the social interaction, the shared experience, and less about the outcome of the game.
Totally. For me it’s because I enjoy the experience, it’s not vicarious. And I still don’t care about the sports, even when I’m there.
Same! It seems silly to watch on tv
“Quiet time” is a guitar player on his living room floor….thats so me 😝
I always assumed that anyone yelling at sports game on TV had bets on the game
I always just assumed they were idiots.
this is maybe the only valid reason to get emotionally invested in a sportsball game.
The fact that just watching sports gives a dopamine hit with every play, like gambling, makes sports betting particularly heinous addiction exploitation.
I don't bet on games, but I do sometimes get that sports fan energy when I watch Boise State which is my favorite football team because of their blue field.
my brother never bet but yelled at every event on the TV...lol
Never understood how a grown man would pay $90 to wear a jersey with another man's name across his back..who doesn't even know he exists..
I understand that. It's fandom. Like wearing an Iron Maiden t-shirt. What I don't understand is why it cost $30 for a hot dog and a drink!
@robunderwood7689 Why sports and entertainment though? Why not something useful instead?
I'd never wear a t-shirt with a rock star or an actor on it. Nor the name of a football player. It's just ridiculous.
I'd never wear it and certainly never buy one. If somebody gave it to me free I'd throw it away.
I always thought it was pretty gay.
@villain_of_the_monthonly gays don’t watch sports, and the liberals. Therefore you are either liberal and gay in both cases your opinion doesn’t matter.
I have always thought when people say we won, or we lost, just sounds stupid. If you aren't on the team, you didn't do anything.
There's nothing wrong with it let's not pretend like we're better than others
same people that are in the MAGA cult, and probably a "christian" man of God....
its all so gross
Slouching on the sofa with a tin of beer in one hand and a packet of crisps in the other is really hard work.
Kinda like we are pregnant ? Really !!!
No no. You see… the fact I didn’t say certain words and haven’t changed my socks in a week contributed
I am a pretty avid sports fan and also a person who loves working on myself and a diligent student. I clicked on this video to see a new perspective and just ended up feeling like you guys are better than me 😅. Are people like me the problem?😂
I know people who love sports that are super smart and crushing it at life. I also know people that are into more artsy or intellectual pursuits but actually have room temperature IQ and have never achieved a single thing in their lives.
I also know the opposite. If it isn't hurting anyone, enjoy your hobby.
I do NOT care about sports at all. It does absolutely nothing for me. This video was incredibly enlightening
Same! I can’t seem to leave the comments section! It’s all so affirming to my years of disliking sports and having to enduring all those awkward times when friends would invite me to sports related stuff.
Even as a kid, I could never comprehend why it mattered where the sportsball goes.. through a hoop, over a field goal, into a net ...or how many sports points are acquired. It all seemed like such a ridiculous waste of time - especially when there were so many fascinating real things to do and learn about. There was a big forest nearby that was full of cool paths, winding creeks, wildflowers, and even an unused rail siding with some abandoned train cars on it. It was a longish hike, but an amazing adventure that few other kids knew about. Even now, I'd rather spend time doing something like that than watching or playing sports.
I never understood either. Hanging out in the woods was a million times more entertaining than playing football. I was forced in fourth grade to play football and it was so dumb
Sports are great, exercise is great. I understand being a player and being invested, but actually being a fan is still confusing to me. It’s just a horrible watching experience. Ads, times where players aren’t doing anything, streaming subscriptions, etc. I enjoyed football when I played, but watching it is just boring as fuckkk. So, what the video says about “living vicariously” definitely makes sense with me. I enjoy the sports, just not living vicariously through OTHER players.
Playing sports gives you a sense of accomplishment if you win, or are good, or improve over time. Plus there’s a sense of comradery with your fellow participants. That being said, I much prefer the type of adventure you described over playing a game. As a side note, I also can’t stand game shows. Just seems like a total waste of life to watch those.
I remember once, I played a game called Ultima IV. Let me tell you, it took me over 6 full months to win, and it was a huge undertaking. I was very proud of the work I did. My main virtue was Compassion, what I started as.
Some people aren’t comfortable with silence.
I feel the same way watching my friends stream a game vs me playing the game...
I agree, when people ask me about a streamer on twitch and I tell them I don't watch streamers they act surprised and ask me why and I tell them because it's boring and I could just go play the game myself.
happy stupid bowl sunday everyone!
I applied for a promotion a few years back, i made the shortlist (and knew all the other guys that made the shortlist), at the interview there were a few sports related questions (what did i play in high school/what team did i play for, who was going to win the Grand Final this year etc) to which i answered that i didn't follow any sports all. The guy that was promoted had started playing football in 'little league' and was still playing football, that year they didn't renew my contract and i politely asked why and got the "were downsizing" excuse. Ironically i moved onto a much better/high paying job.
i'm still trying to figure out what sports questions have to do with a job. that is really weird!
@shirleyanne6573Trying to determine "FIT" with the organization. Playing team sports also shows the ability to work with others as a group.
@kjhnsn7296Except most live vicariously their fantasies through watching not participating. So that has no bearing on being a team player. Basing a job requirement on water cooler talk is wild. I view this type as having a lack of intelligence, having one sole interest shows lack of creativity and thinking outside the box.
@kjhnsn7296 I wish to challenge the idea that playing team sports shows the ability to work with others. Experience over many years in many workplaces, taught me that viewpoint is often believed by managers, but refuted by what happens in a team at work. The people I used to work with who played sports talked as if they were good team players, but in fact most were so competitive that they undermined the team's work by trying to be the star player, rather than working for the team as a whole to do well. What is really needed to make a work team succeed is people who are willing to put the team's result before their own result.
@kjhnsn7296 Or so they think.
I had a friend that used to read the sports section of the newspaper on the weekend just so he could feign interest on Monday morning (yep I grew up in Australia). It actually felt like an act of rebellion for me when I finally said ‘actually I have absolutely no interest in sport’ - I didn’t lose any friends and it felt good to be authentic.
Being in the know about things help you fit in and be more able to make small talk. Common interests are a huge boon when it comes to relationships.
I'm like your friend. I have to get along with people at work. That means I need to know what happened over the weekend. I occasionally enjoy watching a football game when two good teams are playing each other, but I never care about which teams wins, even when the team from my alma mater is playing.
I've always seen sports and celebrity obsession as a sort of stand-in for religious fervor. It is the very definition of worshipping a false idol.
Ricky Martin singing a song about the "Cup of Life" when reffering to the Soccer world cup trophy. Pretty much sums up what you said.
I appreciate sports but rarely dedicate time to watch or play. Whatever study this video is based on misses a larger and more relevant truth in that "ALL" have some sort of idol that their identity can be found in. It is in our nature to idolize... The difference is in the "WHAT". Is it the creature or the Creator? Sports fanataacism is just one of many ways that people idolize the creature; however, many other ways exist (Theatre, Government, Hobbies, SELF, etc.)...
The funniest part about this is that all Christians I know LOVE sports and celebrities 😂😂😂😂 classic American “Christians” the masters of cherry picking. Sports gambling isnt real gambling bro god won’t mind
@Jonathan-yh2uzthat's a mighty claim you made there about ALL people wanting to Idolize. You got a study to back that up? Because I don't agree, and know many people that feel the same.
Definitely can be for some. But many go to church, like myself, and still like watching certain sports. Especially over the crap that we've been left with on TV.
Next do the psychology of people who don't use AI generated images in youtube videos!
Diagnosis: based and awesome.
gambaling
@subyayap The holy trinity - SPORTS - GAMBALING - SOCIAL MEDIA
EMPATHTY 4:25
@Kossy-x4x
edited: ignore ts, only said it cuz I assumed the guy was supporting the channel
for ai slop? be so for real. the mega corporations who force feed everyone this crap dont care about you and just want your money
you can celebrate the loss of human talent as much as you'd like, but this will blow up in everyones face in the end. non-art jobs are being replaced too, so stop trying to act like you're above all this
people are losing the ability to critically think because of ai, it is far from a blessing
I’ve often thought that liking football was an absolute litmus test of who i can be friends with and who i cannot. This explains why.
It's like both groups are speaking completely different languages and can neither communicate or assimilate.
I wonder if most sports fans lean left politically since they are both qualities that spawn from excess empathy and group think.
I have actual hobbies and interests. watching TV is not one of them.
The fact that people think “watching football” is a hobby is interesting…
I was the percussion section leader and band captain when I was in high school. I rooted against my school's football team because if they didn't win games and go to district or state playoffs, the band could stop learning new marching shows for halftime shows and focus on developing our musical skills. One of my high school class mates broke his neck in a particularly violent and unfortunate hit during a game and never walked again. I'm sure these experiences shaped my livelong inability to understand humans' fascination with chasing balls around and found football to be especially ridiculous.
Watching RUclips apparently..is but it’s not TV .? 🤷🏽
@ukestudio3002 no, it is not TV. it is the modern equivalent of reading an encyclopedia. I watch a lot of political news. very little of what I watch is just entertainment and nothing else. I am learning a variety of things with most of what I watch.
@michaelmacpherson-wm6mhstep away from the high horse sir. You're deluding yourself. RUclips is entertainment unless you're only watching Khan academy. Even if it's all partially educational it's edutainment or funducational at best.
I find it boring and silly to chase a ball.
Follow them same Pig Skin loving lunatics that Paint themselves, Yelling, jumping up and down and crying to church and observe how Modest, Reserved and Dignified they are.
the funny part is... this video is not chasing a ball. is watching other people miles away chasing a ball. not like the ball coming at you. roflmao
Maybe for some it's the nude virgins on the sidelines. An Anthropologist wrote a synopsis of a football game way back in the 1970's. I tried to find it, but Google was no help. In the synopsis, the ball represented an egg, or fertility. Getting it across the other team's line was equivalent to impregnating their queen. The virgins I mentioned were there to again promote fertility and the implied reward for outstanding performance during the game. It was a long paper, but you get the drift. It's all about the ball, until it's about tribal fertility.
@jimmycchanyes, even sillier. Watching someone else chase a ball.
What if you were given a couple of million dollars to chase a ball?
I only see football as 2 teams kicking a ball back and forth trying to get it on the opposite goal for 3 hours. Always.
Soccer Football
One year I was at the bookstore during the superbowl.😂
I would much rather be at a bookstore (or anywhere else) instead of watching the Super Bowl.
I need friends like you! 😂
We usually hit Costco, it's almost always dead!
I make sure to either be working or staying at home during the Super Bowl. That is the worst day of the year to go out into public.
we go out to eat with friends, preferably at places without TVs - its amazing how nice and quiet some restaurants can be
I recall, when I was a kid, being asked for my favorite team. As I answered that I wasn't into football(soccer) very much, my classmates would reply "what do you like, then?" in a genuine tone of disbelief as if there was nothing more relevant to life than football. "- You know,... music, reading, walking, thinking, movies, gaming, sex...."
You were having sex when you were a kid? 🤔
Same reply here in the U.S. when I was a kid and people found out I wasn't into watching football or baseball.
@erich7863Im from the US too. I never had to struggle to explain my complete disinterest in American Football.... It's boring, they do a play for 5 seconds and walk around for 10 minutes + commercials. I don't know the rules. It's never on at my house. The only time I see it is at major holiday family gathering in an older generation Aunt/Uncle apartment with 50 relatives there at the same time and is so physically uncomfortable being at.
finally getting to know about my way of thinking. Its awesome to know that I am not only one, there are many people with same persecptive
I honestly never thought I was broken or boring for not obsessing about sports.
once told a guy I don't care about sports. Then he said, "you don't like to gamble either" BINGO! He was correct!
The video mentioned psychological comparisons between sports fandom and gambling, I have to imagine there's a lot of correlation between them. Which is also probably why sports betting - all these sportsbook apps I see - is such a big industry. Though it's hard to know if that's because of this correlation or just that where I live that's the one form of gambling that's allowed, traditional casino games are far more restricted.
Yeah, I know that gambling can be a serious addiction for some people, but I’ve never really understood how one would find it that enticing/addictive in the first place. It’s not that interesting.
That’s funny! I don’t like sports or gambling either.
Me neither. Interesting.
Lol, and he probably thought he'd hit you with a "gotcha" with that. Must be nice to be that simplistic, right?
My father thought that organized sports were a huge waste of resources, so we never really watched any at home. Instead, he showed us how to build and fix things, go camping, fishing, hunting, birding, snorkeling, hiking and exploring all the cool places there are out there. I believe I'm better for that. Thanks Dad!
Indeed! It definitely sounds like a more productive use of your time! Rather than sitting around watching others perform the ‘action’ you were out doing it….as a family and increasing those familial tribal bonds.
I agree with you! You are better off for that.
Now that’s a great dad!
On the opposite side of this, my dad regularly took us to sporting events. To this day (he’s 88), talking about our teams is still a big part of our relationship.
My father screamed at the sports, and then at us.
It was always funny to me, hearing my roommates say stuff like "I can't memorize all this stuff for Bio!" but then talk about this one wide receiver that used to play for the Rams, was second round pick, went to Michigan State and was red shirted his first year.
My ex husband doesn’t remember how old our 2 children are but he knows who won the superbowl and the score for the last 30 years🙄😫
Its because bio doesnt give them a dopamine hit.
@Locsbyletitia wow.
I'm a football coach and people look at me crazy when I tell them I dont watch football
The World Cup final is a great time to visit the supermarket, no queues.
And to call it the World Cup is so stupid. I mean, does anyone other than America play?
@Aussiebushcophomesteadingthe World Cup is international idiot
@AussiebushcophomesteadingTell me you are joking. The FIFA World Cup.
@Aussiebushcophomesteading I think you're confusing it for the World Series. In the World Series, only US and Canadian teams play. The World Cup includes most countries.
I had the best day ever at the gym yesterday, apparently the super bowl was on. Place was empty.