Sports
Here is a question. Can you watch a sporting event with interest if you have no interest or fandom of either team playing?
I will answer for myself. I find that in football I can get pretty bored watching some games. I mean if my fantasy quarterback or running back is playing I will root for those guys. Otherwise I stick to my teams. Baseball there is always a possibility to see history at every game. However I tend to enjoy a game more when I know the players. Especially when I can complain about Quinlan playing or Fuentes pitching the ninth. Baseball is a game of small intricacies. Hockey is a game that I can watch two teams play that I have no interest in. Mainly because they can beat the crap out of each other and it is such a fast fluid game. Second to last thing before I end this. I think I should remind everyone of my teams in order of my passion for them. First Angels, Ducks, Trojans, and then Eagles. Ok lastly. This is something I noticed Saturday then again Sunday and even more tonight. I want to have a feeling like Washington fans did Saturday. To have that kind of excitement and joy over doing something you're not supposed to do. Now I wouldn't trade winning for anything, but I would like to see less of the quiet arrogance and more childlike passion. I noticed both Sunday, at the Dodger game, and Monday, watching MNF, that while I enjoyed watching those games I had no interest in either of them other than giving friends hard times about their teams. Tonight at the Angel game, it is sad to say but I was surprised at the passion shown for a regular season game. Whenever the Yankee fans started cheering they were quickly overpowered. Then something I have never seen in Angel Stadium but during one of the rallies Angel fans were standing and cheering almost the entire time. It was more intense than the post season game I went to. The most passionate fans I have ever witnessed live is when I went to Ducks v. Red wings playoff game the year the Ducks won it all. The Ponda was rocking the entire time. It was the loudest building I have ever been in.
