Interesting perspective on (pro) sports
mhardy6647
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Just read this Someplace Else. Taken slightly out of context, but I found this most wry. Leave out the comment about owners, and it applies to college sports, too! 
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Players come and go, coaches come and go, even owners sometimes change. So, what's left? The uniform, mostly. So the quote was, you're rooting for laundry.
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mhardy6647 wrote: »Just read this Someplace Else. Taken slightly out of context, but I found this most wry. Leave out the comment about owners, and it applies to college sports, too!Players come and go, coaches come and go, even owners sometimes change. So, what's left? The uniform, mostly. So the quote was, you're rooting for laundry.
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Funny doc, but I do think college is fundamentally different if it’s your alma mater or you currently work/teach there. Then you actually have both an historical and emotional connection with the place...
I honestly don’t understand die hard fans of pro teams, I mean what exactly is your connection to them? They don’t care about the fans except as $$$Living Room 2.2: Usher BE-718 "tiny dancers"; Dual DIY Dayton audio RSS210HF-4 Subs with Dayton SPA-250 amps; Arcam SA30; Musical Fidelity A308; Sony UBP-x1000es
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Although I really don't root for team at all, on any level, I do have a counter point.
Teams, especially big teams (pro and NCAA D1) help to drive local economy and school funding. They provide jobs, bring tourism, in schools they are used as a recruiting tool for non-athlete students, etc. The stadiums bring other major events to the town, making it a more interesting place to live overall. There is a whole ecosystem built around big teams. If you live or care about a city where a team resides, rooting for the home team really is rooting for the success of the city.
But that comment about rooting for laundry is funny, and it's something that I do connect with on a personal level.Analog: MoFi MasterTracker > MoFi UltraDeck > Sutherland 20/20
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displayname wrote: »Although I really don't root for team at all, on any level, I do have a counter point.
Teams, especially big teams (pro and NCAA D1) help to drive local economy and school funding. They provide jobs, bring tourism, in schools they are used as a recruiting tool for non-athlete students, etc.
The counter argument to that point is that most pro teams that get the city to build them huge stadiums NEVER get that money back on most economist's estimates...https://www.pbs.org/newshour/nation/public-money-used-build-sports-stadiums
Its harder to quantify the quality of living argument...Living Room 2.2: Usher BE-718 "tiny dancers"; Dual DIY Dayton audio RSS210HF-4 Subs with Dayton SPA-250 amps; Arcam SA30; Musical Fidelity A308; Sony UBP-x1000es
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I liked it when the O-rioles played just (walking distance) down the street (33rd Street) from my alma mater -- and student discount tickets were $1.25. Sunset on a nice summer evening in Memorial Stadium was a pretty darned nice thing to experience.
My alma mater's football team was... well...humorous might be a good way to describe them (at least in the 1970s). Now... lacrosse... that was rather a different matter.
... but, all in all, I just ain't much of a sports guy.
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mhardy6647 wrote: »I liked it when the O-rioles played just (walking distance) down the street (33rd Street) from my alma mater -- and student discount tickets were $1.25. Sunset on a nice summer evening in Memorial Stadium was a pretty darned nice thing to experience.
Did you know that there is now a park with a baseball diamond exactly where Memorial Stadium once stood?
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I did not -- haven't been by there for... quite a while.
I am still trying to decide about goin' back for my fortieth college reunion next year. Part of me figures I should... the other part of me sez it's a long trip by car and never any fun to fly.
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PRO sports. I gave up a number of years ago.
I only watch UFC or kickboxing.
Once you miss a few seasons, the teams tend to change so much
that you have no idea who you're looking at.
Or do you care all that much. I used to follow football closely.
Not in many years. I don't even watch the super bowl.
The love of the game became the love of $$$$.
I can't even watch hockey anymore.
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