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musefan wrote: Many will enjoy going to a music festival but then not even listen to music at home.
They go for the atmosphere and all the other things you can do at a festival.
I could even imagine going to a football match myself, just to see the arena, taste the atmosphere and experience the event.
But you don't get any of that by sitting on the couch at home and watching a live broadcast of the event (which festival go-ers generally don't do).
I get personal attachment, but I don't get how someone you don't know, but who just so happens to live in the same country as you (he was born in Belgium), can give you that personal attachment.
Some friends of mine played in a band, didn't particularly liked their music, but I never missed a show to show some support for my homies.
Also not the same as placing a bet, I could place a bet on any match if I think I could make some money and with my money invested the match could be very exciting indeed, but these people aren't betting.
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Sander Rossel wrote: but these people aren't betting.
Are they not? A different kind of bet perhaps.
Perhaps they gamble an amount of emotion into the games. The risk is they feel sad when the team loses, but the pay-off is the euphoria that comes from winning. The amount of sadness/happiness experienced will depend on the initial emotional stake.
Perhaps that is the same with your friend. The Dutch link was simply the excuse/justification for placing the bet. The waking up at stupid-o-clock to watch is the stake. The pay-off comes when the racer does well and your friend can be happy knowing it was worth the early start to watch that result.
Or maybe that's all just nonsense... people are weird and I will never fully understand any of them.
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musefan wrote: Or maybe that's all just nonsense... people are weird and I will never fully understand any of them.
And to think you almost had me convinced 
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The  emoji is the closest to a tongue-in-check emoji I could think of.
A bit of an in-joke at work. When when of our teams win we congratulate the supporter on doing such a good job.
// TODO: Insert something here Top ten reasons why I'm lazy
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I'd go for the  emoji, it even shows some tongue (out-of-cheek) 
Glad to see you're joking though
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I think it's an in-joke for most sports fans.
A couple of weeks ago a friend of mine approached me and said "I need to have a word with you..." because my team was rumoured to be trying to poach one of his teams best players.
Obviously there was no expectation that I was going to be able to do anything about it
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I'm with you completely - the Euro football was a classic example - in England all the team were heroes until they lost, then the people that missed penalties were subject to racial and verbal abuse on a platform called social media. I've never understood the "we won" brigade - they must believe that shouting and swearing at a TV makes a difference.
"I didn't mention the bats - he'd see them soon enough" - Hunter S Thompson - RIP
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The problem with the euros is that you get people supporting the team who don't even care about football - they are in it for the glory and nothing more. So it all blows up out of proportion.
People have this silly habit of not wanting to be left out of things.
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WHAT!? THE MOON IS NOT MADE OF CHEESE!? 
I'd like to discuss this opinion because it obviously is (now, am I joking or not?  )
I'm not sure what your point is though, whether I'm intelligent and everyone who doesn't agree with me is stupid or vice versa? 
I mean, this "sports hysteria" is a feeling people get, which I don't have and can't explain (or even imagine).
I'm aware that people aren't going to say "you're right, it doesn't make sense I don't like sports teams anymore", that would be something
And I probably have that kind of stuff too, we're not particularly logical creatures.
But the sports one always irks me as it's so huge and massive and you just can't get around it.
Even I had to watch a football match recently because I was somewhere and they put on football.
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Sorry for leaving an ambiguous post. I'd specifically thought of that video because I found it illuminating that people's attraction to sporting teams was surmised to be a consequence of the brain's ego and love for itself.
Never being attracted to playing or following team sports I've long found rabid football (for instance) supporters truly perplexing.
I already know (think!?) you're one of the brightest bunnies around. Wasn't going as far as to draw any conclusions about others.. I watched the video rather late at night the other week. It was just the touching on the subject of sport that made my mind remember it after reading your post.
Again, sorry for the ambiguity.
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I could have written that myself. My interest in professional sports evaporated by about eight or nine years of age.
The main draw - in reality - is the bonding with others who use "we" for the team as though they were really part of it. Thus, by memorizing statistics with what little brain they have available, they can discuss them and debate them with other like-minded vicarious "lovers".
Rather pathetic. Imagine if they put that much time, effort and attention into the actual world around them that has real impacts.
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They should return to the original set of sports which were intended to highlight warrior traits, which would essentially restrict the available sports to track/field events. Team and "style" sports do not belong.
".45 ACP - because shooting twice is just silly" - JSOP, 2010
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You can never have too much ammo - unless you're swimming, or on fire. - JSOP, 2010
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When you pry the gun from my cold dead hands, be careful - the barrel will be very hot. - JSOP, 2013
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Yes, I agree, and in the classical attire of the time, but they should allow females to compete as well - in the same attire, of course! 
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With all the screaming about equality and allowing trans to compete in women's sports, there should be no "women"'s sports anymore, and everyone competes against everyone else. I mean, we're all about equality, right?
I have an idea for a new "sport" - underwater demolition. A swimmer must approach a target 500 meters away underwater, plant an explosive device, swim back, and detonate the device remotely. Points start at 100, with deductions being made every time the swimmer visibly breaks the surface of the water, for every minute it takes him/her to accomplish the task, and if the device does not detonate.
".45 ACP - because shooting twice is just silly" - JSOP, 2010
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You can never have too much ammo - unless you're swimming, or on fire. - JSOP, 2010
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When you pry the gun from my cold dead hands, be careful - the barrel will be very hot. - JSOP, 2013
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i was rather referring to the prurient interest displayed in the attire of the Swedish ladies in the beach volleyball, where they were penalized, presumably by a male judge, for wearing shorts instead of bikini bottoms. In the original Olympic games, all competitors were naked.
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Absolutely John, I don't think they had a game of football before going into battle 
"I didn't mention the bats - he'd see them soon enough" - Hunter S Thompson - RIP
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I don’t know… a rugby scrum is kind of like two shield walls colliding (without the shields OR weapons). [bit of a stretch maybe]
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So, it sounds like you must be a big fan of the winter biathlon!
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I will watch some of it (at least watch as much as I can due to timezone differences)
The only thing I don't like, is that we don't see less popular sports; and some of the new sports are weird.
Surfing ? Skateboard ? It might be fun to do, but as an Olympic sport ?
CI/CD = Continuous Impediment/Continuous Despair
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Maximilien wrote: Surfing ? Skateboard ? It might be fun to do, but as an Olympic sport ?
What makes those sports less qualified than some of the existing ones?
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Using your logic, all sports even spit-wad competitions should be allowed in the Olympics.
Using your logic, including all sports in the entire world, the Olympics would probably take an entire year, every day, to complete; possibly longer.
where does one draw a line in the sand in all of this?
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Slacker007 wrote: Using your logic
What logic? I only asked a question. It wasn't intended to be rhetorical .
But if you want to discus the real reason why sports get added, then as per usual it's all about money. They will continue to add whatever sports they feel will bring in the most viewers/money.
Slacker007 wrote: where does one draw a line in the sand in all of this?
Usually around the beach volleyball net. 
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