What is wrong with us?

[Stew]

What is wrong with us? Perhaps that way too many folks get way too emotionally invested in a game that they have zero impact on the outcome. It would be like me screaming at a quarter for coming up tails.

[trousers]

What is wrong with us? Perhaps that way too many folks get way too emotionally invested in a game that they have zero impact on the outcome. It would be like me screaming at a quarter for coming up tails.

What??!!! You actually want it to come up heads??!!! Never!!! Your choice of pistols or fisticuffs!!

[dankrutka]

What is wrong with us? Perhaps that way too many folks get way too emotionally invested in a game that they have zero impact on the outcome. It would be like me screaming at a quarter for coming up tails.

Zero impact? Then why do home teams win so much more than road teams? Good home crowd definitely impact games.

(I agree with the too emotionally invested, or at least, invested in the wrong ways part)

[ljbab728]

I know when I was in the marching band for OSU in 93, and we were playing in Norman, we had golf balls thrown at the us in the stands. My entire time in the OSU marching band, Norman was the only place I (as a band member) was yelled at, called names, or had things thrown at me.

I was in the OU band in the 60's and that happened to us at Nebraska only it was chairs instead of golf balls.

[jerrywall]

I was in the OU band in the 60's and that happened to us at Nebraska only it was chairs instead of golf balls.

I just don't understand that behavior, any more than the behavior of OSU fans at Bedlam this year. It's all totally unacceptable, but beyond that it's sub-human.

[ylouder]

What is wrong with us? Perhaps that way too many folks get way too emotionally invested in a game that they have zero impact on the outcome.

Ive mentioned it in other threads, but as a former player ive always wondered that too. I've seen people screaming, crying, throwing things and threatening other fans over a game that they never played and had absolutely zero impact on their actual lives. Find a booky and place a grand on the team and then I will understand being that invested in the outcome, but if not chill out and actually find a real physical hobby to direct the extra energy into. Dont spend your whole life on the sidelines watching others actually live there lives.

On a side note, ive found that once a person does compete in an actual physical competition (bike racing, 5k run, marathon, etc) they seem to develop a better respect for watching others in an actual competition.

Besides mens softball, thats just an excuse to drink and get mad between football and basketball seasons.