skizziks

I don't care about sports at all, except for cycling. I watch the Giro d' Italia and the Tour de France and the Vuelta d' Espania when I can, and I cheer for everyone and love to watch them push themselves to the limit, I love the drama and excitement of the rolling soap opera. Other than that, I can appreciate sport, we need to have it for entertainment and all, but I have no idea what is happening in football, basketball, baseball, etc.

The sport fan I pity/look down on the most is the guy (I know at least three of them) living out his high school glory days vicariously through the pros, the guy who stands in front of the tv, with his team's jersey on, cheering them on, possibly a football in his hand (I have actually seen this). When you ask how the game went, he says "WE lost/won." No dude, THEY lost/won, you watched them. (I confess I sometimes imagine I'm in the tour when I'm out riding my bike, climbing a huge hill, I imagine I'm fighting for the king of the mountain jersey)

You are in no way "less of a man" because you don't follow a game. I'd rather be not so much a man and not know a damn thing about a sport than to be that pathetic guy who is so obsessed he can't let it go.