Sports fans: Weird? Very true. Lot's of love and hate. Being from St. Louis, it would have been difficult to avoid being a St. Louis Cardinals baseball fan. I don't hate their supposed rival, the Chicago Cubs, probably because they were never much good when I was young. I didn't much like the American League when I was a kid. The Kansas City A's stunk. As a kid I hated the Yankees, and while I knew people who liked just about every team including the Mets, I never met a Yankees fan till I moved well to the east for graduate school. I got sick of the Boston Red Sox in 1967, when the NBC Game of the Week showed their games practically every other Saturday all summer long. (NBC's lead announcer worked for the Red Sox the rest of the week.) I was more pleased the Cardinals beat them in the World Series that year, than I was when the Cardinals beat the Yankees a few years earlier. My attitude toward the American league softened when Kansas City got the Royals to replace the A's.
I used to love pro football. No real favorite teams, just the sport. It got very phony in the 1980, so I quit watching it, and haven't missed it. Can't understand why people want to tune in hours early to watch Super Bowl hype before the game. Can't understand why people who don't like football would sit through a Super Bowl just to see the commercials.
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Date: 2019-09-18 03:35 pm (UTC)I used to love pro football. No real favorite teams, just the sport. It got very phony in the 1980, so I quit watching it, and haven't missed it. Can't understand why people want to tune in hours early to watch Super Bowl hype before the game. Can't understand why people who don't like football would sit through a Super Bowl just to see the commercials.