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rrinker:
 Interesting, in my company, where most of the people I associate with are consultants like I am, mostly in server infrastructure roles, many are very much into American football, to the point of one of my coworkers organizing a fantasy football league for us (in addition to at least two others he participates in with his son). We actually have customer events that are a day out at a game (sadly us worker bees are not invited, this is sales schmoozing with customers). Most of us are all fans of the local team - but we have one guy who is a fan of a huge rival of our local team.

dave j:

--- Quote from: Electro Detective on April 06, 2020, 03:41:45 am ---The nail in the coffin was seeing neanderthal parent tards at kids local footy matches being sore losers
and or bitching on their kid to rough up other kids, 'do whatever it takes to win or else..' BS

--- End quote ---

One of my nephews referees games in the local junior league[1]. Recently he had to send one parent to wait in their car until the game had finished for swearing at the players!

[1] He gets paid £30 per game which makes it a nice source of pocket money for a 15 year old. He's allowed to referee games where the players are two or more years younger than him.
james_s:
There are a few parks with soccer fields that our bike trail passes through and one where I often go to fly model airplanes and I've observed many times parents screaming at their kids who are playing. I don't really get it, sometimes I like washed up parents like try try to live vicariously through their kids. The thing that bothers me most about sports in general is how utterly seriously people take it. I have no issue at all with someone enjoying it but you'd think it was some kind of life or death thing the way some people get wound up in it.
25 CPS:
I play semipro football which in the league I'm in is a hybrid of Canadian rules but with US style four downs.

The reactions are pretty hilarious at times.  At work, people don't believe me until I show them pictures and several people have said they never thought I'd be a meathead.  On the other hand, when people at football practices and games and team events etc. ask what I do for a living at my day job find out, they have trouble understanding exactly what it is I do.  From what I've seen, it's largely two groups of people whose interests don't overlap for the most part.

I just hope the coronavirus issues settle down and we're able to have a season this year even if it's pushed back into the fall and early winter.
coppice:
Its those STEM cells. They aren't well adapted to sports.
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