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What I can't understand is why adults spend hours watching other people play sports on TV. Some even pay for premium channels to watch it.
by theshrike79 2y ago
What I can't understand is why adults spend hours watching other people play sports on TV.
Some even pay for premium channels to watch it.
- whycome 2y agoSome dress up in costumes to mimic the characters as well. And then listen to radio broadcasts debating it. They create songs to sing together. They believe they’re a part of the team and will refer to it as the collective “we” and they’ll sometimes cry when they lose.
- djtango 2y agoIn the abstract, they are totally fine but in practice sports has hundreds (thousands?) of years of tradition and culture imprinting into the fabric of society making it "normal". In the UK football is so deeply engrained they talk of doing public holidays for when the England team finally wins a major international cup IIRC. The Olympics had/has some special subtext in international relations. So following sports has been deeply normalised in ways that probably polarises other similar practices (but for other interests) into seeming very fringe