I’ve seen tables flipped, tv sets punched through, furniture thrown. And that’s just in the home.
How does one get to a place mentally where burning and destroying things, over a sportsball game seem a reasonable thing to do?
As on reddit, no one who does this is ever going to take accountability for it.(And no one who does this is going to be on Lemmy to begin with)
Alpha male behavior up there with beating your girlfriend
When I was a kid I would get emotionally invested in the game, hoping my team would win and gritting my teeth because they might not.
I really cannot relate to this at all anymore. I might wish for my home team to win but if they don’t play well then that’s on them, and I am not going to lose sleep either way.
I can only guess that I got caught up in the games as a kid because my whole family was into them, rooting and clapping and groaning and swearing at the refs. I was small and my brain wasn’t fully formed and I just got caught up in that culture.
It looks patently ridiculous from the outside. But I guess some people’s entire society is so into sports that they reach adulthood with this tribalism intact. It is after all a form of entertainment and people crave excitement and something to care about.
I got sick of my emotions being caught up in an arbitrary thing that might go either way. It’s the same reason I hate holding stocks. When you wake up each day and see that you gained or lost money based on arbitrary forces you can’t control, it’s like having your emotions manipulated by RNG.
Gamers know that when a game is entirely driven by RNG its bullshit not worth playing.
Miserable people who put all of their happiness in a weird location such as how your city’s sports team performs. That is how these clowns achieve emotional validation.
I personally can’t say why I would because I don’t but I can tell you why my friends do. Its because they drink a fuck ton of alcohol, bet way more money than they can afford and get caught up in the mob mentality.
I mean people cry over movies and tv shows. The line between fact and fiction, real and not real, important and inconsequential is pretty blurry in our minds.
The difference is that movies and TV shows are often specifically made to elicit those reactions. Storytelling is essentially a hack that uses our emotions to implant lessons.
The same can’t be said for sports events.
Everything around sports is made to make you loyal to the team and be emotionally attached to the results.
For team owned by some gereatric white paraaites leaching taxpayer funds to the stadium
Middle age cucks need to wake the fuck up
Wait till he hears about hollywood
hollycreeps also are able to extract huge concessions from “movie” cities because “jobs”
Seriously!? A Cinderella team spends a full year working their way to the sweet 16 and perhaps eventually the final four? Then loses by one point. Do you not see the struggle, the passion, the determination and the heartbreak in that?
Or a champion tennis player, significantly past her prime, coming back to championship after multiple years out and winning the title.
Or two soccer superstars at the absolute peak of their field going head to head. Can you not sense the tension, and suspense as these two juggernauts battle it out to see who comes out on top?
Or a man, born without arms, overcoming adversity at all points in his life to become the fastest swimmer and winning the gold.
Do you not see how sport can be an allegory for the human condition? The struggle, the heartbreak that comes with failure, the celebration of success, the toll of aging.
If not, I challenge you to take up a sport for a year, just a year. Try to get as good as you can with it. Celebrate your successes. Reflect on your failures. Document your milestones as you progress . Try not to give up. Make friends along the way. Become the true definition of an amateur. Living through your own experiences, you may discover that sport is full of emotion.
Dude, the purpose of sports events isn’t to rile people up and have them damage property. The purpose is to entertain. You understand the difference, right? Or do you go apeshit and break all your belongings whenever you’re watching a movie?
Way to completely miss my point.
Way to completely miss mine!
The difference is that movies and TV shows are often specifically made to elicit those reactions. Storytelling is essentially a hack that uses our emotions to implant lessons.
The same can’t be said for sports events.
What part of this did I miss?
The part where sports events aren’t specifically made to elicit aggression?
The OP claimed that aggression caused by sports events is comparable to e.g. crying due to movies. Movies are specifically made to elicit crying. Sports events are not specifically made to elicit aggression. Which part is difficult for you to understand?
It’s called displacement aggression The sportsball fan identifies with his team to the point that it feels like he lost the game himself. Since he can’t express his frustration and subsequent aggression towards the opposing team (since he is in front of his TV several 100km away), he expresses it towards the next best thing that is weaker and accessible, e.g. furniture, walls, wife and kids…
It is always weird to hear fans refer to what happened in a game as “we”
Yeah… Kinda like a political party or government?
It’s also really heavily about tribalism
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tribalism
Because people like to be part of a specific group and feel like the goals of said group are their goals, regardless of the reality of the thing
I personally find it weird when fans use “us” and “we” when discussing their sports team as if they have anything to do with how the team performs or is managed. I just call my local/city sports teams by their name.
Now do politics 🐸
Since he can’t express his frustration and subsequent aggression
towards the opposing teamin a way that someone who can regulate their emotions would…
Sometimes you just gotta kill a toaster…
They use sports as an outlet for all their emotions. Happiness, sadness, anger, grief.
I would say, witnessing the other side of this is beautiful. I was in Buenos Aires when Argentina won the world cup. I think it was over 3 million people that gathered on the main road by the obelisk monument. Everyone was crying of happiness, dancing, celebrating. There were no political, class, or race divides. Boca & River fans celebrated together. Everyone was just Argentinian that day.
“Sportsball normie Lemmy user” reporting in and I have the answer! The answer being: I DON’T KNOW . Not all of us are the same. My usual response to my team having a disappointing season is just trying to enjoy the rest of the season from an entertaining perspective while dying inside over my team’s showing.
When my team has won the Superbowl (will not disclose the amount of times), I have ridden that sublime high for well, all of my life since that fateful year(s) in a sun kissed peace almost like a runners high. I never felt the need to fuck shit up is what I’m saying
So we’ve concluded you’re not a Browns fan…
The both of you are correct.
Hmm, gonna try and narrow this down further. Did you climb any light poles as part of your celebration festivities?
Probably not a Bears fan either.
Should ask somewhere else, you won’t find these people in a federated open-source communist link aggregator website.
People who destroy things over computer game outcomes: Why?
I’ve seen keyboards flipped, monitors punched through, controllers thrown. And that’s just in the home.
How does one get to a place mentally where burning and destroying things, over a computer game seem a reasonable thing to do?
More relatable?
More relatable?
No
I’ve seen keyboards flipped, monitors punched through, controllers thrown. And that’s just in the home.
If this is true, then people in your home need some professional help. I have never seen something like that over a videogame
Ironically, the only game I’ve ever damaged my own stuff over was a sportsball game.
Most games you fuck up due to your own incompetence, but football games and the like make you feel like you could do nothing wrong in a game and still lose. It’s infuriating.
Destroying things and acting like a bully feels powerful and strong. They can’t do anything else, it’s a lack of problem-solving capabilities .
I think you’re missing two large parts; escapism and booze.
From the sportsball moniker, I imagine you aren’t a fan. Sometime, it’s worth it to go to a bar that supporters of whatever team go to. There’s something magic about hooting, hollering and cheering with a crowd of complete strangers about this one thing. And in that brief couple of hours, it becomes larger and more magic. And some folks chasing that feeling get drunk and go too far when it goes wrong.
You’re missing the final piece, gambling losses.
I’m just a little sad that there are people in the world who have lived such empty, passionless lives that they can’t conceive of being so excited and invested in something that they could lose their self control for a moment
You think the only reason people could find destructive, violent behaviour to be unusual or difficult to understand is because they have no passion in their own lives?
I’m just a little sad that there are people in the world who have grown up in such violent, loveless homes that they can’t conceive of finding violent behaviour over a sports game disgusting.
I wonder how many of wives and partners who get the shit kicked out of them when their passionate “alpha” male’s favourite team loses would agree with you. Oh it’s OK, he had just lived such a full, passionate life that he sometimes loses his self control for a moment.
The sportsball team you cheer for is your tribe.
Your tribe meets up to go to war against other tribes regularly, you wear the same colors to recognize each other.
The goal is to beat the other tribe, show them who’s boss and acquire the shiny thing at the end.
The great thing is, you don’t even have to do anything to be part of the tribe, except wear the right colors and cheer (or boo) at the right time.It’s a pretty civilized way to channel our stone-age tribal urges into something that happens on a weekend, doesn’t interfere with your work, and can even be turned into profit. And sometimes a few things break, but that’s much better than the constant bloody feuds that were normal during most of human history.