sports

[2eclipse]

there's a lot of news this week about sports teams up here in minnesota and it leaves me in the dark.
i don't mind sports. i like the philly flyers and the redskins and playoff basketball...but it is hard for me to get really invested in following a team.
a lot of this is because sports teams don't really seem to represent their area at all.
people get traded to balance teams out - and there is really no connection to let alone representation of the area they "play for." this boggles me. why not call the kansas city royals just "the royals?" who cares if they are based there when they don't really COME from the area? i grew up loving the redskins because they won the superbowl when i was 8 and i am attached to the memory of all the hype that went with that...my loyalty is attached to a memory...and it isn't all that strong because these teams have nothing to do with me. but some sports fans take it personally every time their team wins or loses.

can some of you sports fans out there explain this to me?

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Re: you actually explained it yourself

[2eclipse.livejournal.com]

i guess i'm looking for something more....because when i was little, i thought all sports team players were from the area. i didn't know any better - but that was part of why i connected to them. and when i found out they weren't, i didn't care as much.
as it is i watch the superbowl and that's about it. i'm a VERY luke-warm sports fan, although i do like going to hockey games.
and i just don't understand making time in your schedule to watch them on tv. i'm looking for a reason to care at any level more than i care...because it just doesn't make sense to me. why would people do this? why would they care more.
my memories don't make me an active fan...so where to active fans come from?

Re: you actually explained it yourself

[dhampir.livejournal.com]

most locals that play for a team arent the pro level, its more prominent at the lower college levels and then high schools.

they make time in their schedule to watch them as thats their hobby. similar to fiber work (knitting, spinning and such) you make time for it as its something you want to do. watching the sport is theirs. you talk about the projects, they talk about the last game, the players, the 'big' play that someone made or the statistics.

im probably not explaining it well at all.

im my case, im an active college hockey fan, because i played a little hockey growing up, when i lived in gfk when i was small going to a UND game was a big deal. that was something that stuck with me. i know friends who are active basketball fans because they played basketball thru high school. it became part of them.

maybe thats where active fans come from.