I've given sports writers a hard time due to how fickle and hyperbolic many seem to be, especially regarding the sport of football. I'm amazed at how many quarterbacks can be hailed as the second-coming of John Elway one Sunday and then told he'd be lucky to start another NFL game the following Sunday.
As I've come to realize, fans are just as bad, if not worse at times. With me being a fairly neutral observer and lover of the sports world, I don't typically find myself resorting to these kinds of tactics. However, following games on Saturdays and Sundays, I'll sometimes read through message boards and am amazed by what I see.
I remember when living in Nebraska, if the Nebraska Cornhuskers' football team lost a game, I'd hear some people calling for the firing of the head coach or the benching of the quarterback (often times both). I've heard similar comments about the Buckeyes' football team since moving to the Columbus area from Omaha about four years ago.
After the Philadelphia Eagles lost to 3-0 Arizona yesterday, I read some comments about how the now 2-1 and co-NFC East leader Eagles should fire head coach Andy Reid and bench Pro Bowl quarterback Michael Vick.
It's interesting for me and I'm sure others to observe obsessed fans of certain teams. Many will get snippy if one mentions to them that "it's just a game," because to them - in their minds - it's much more than that. However, to most sober and emotionally stable people in the world, it's as much of a game as is some free cell just before going to bed. While I have heard a couple such individuals crying after playing free cell, throwing inanimate objects around the room and cussing more than a drunken sailor after listening to a great deal of gangsta rap, these times have been much fewer and farther between than with obsessed sports fans.
As I've come to realize, fans are just as bad, if not worse at times. With me being a fairly neutral observer and lover of the sports world, I don't typically find myself resorting to these kinds of tactics. However, following games on Saturdays and Sundays, I'll sometimes read through message boards and am amazed by what I see.
I remember when living in Nebraska, if the Nebraska Cornhuskers' football team lost a game, I'd hear some people calling for the firing of the head coach or the benching of the quarterback (often times both). I've heard similar comments about the Buckeyes' football team since moving to the Columbus area from Omaha about four years ago.
After the Philadelphia Eagles lost to 3-0 Arizona yesterday, I read some comments about how the now 2-1 and co-NFC East leader Eagles should fire head coach Andy Reid and bench Pro Bowl quarterback Michael Vick.
It's interesting for me and I'm sure others to observe obsessed fans of certain teams. Many will get snippy if one mentions to them that "it's just a game," because to them - in their minds - it's much more than that. However, to most sober and emotionally stable people in the world, it's as much of a game as is some free cell just before going to bed. While I have heard a couple such individuals crying after playing free cell, throwing inanimate objects around the room and cussing more than a drunken sailor after listening to a great deal of gangsta rap, these times have been much fewer and farther between than with obsessed sports fans.
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