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Electronics people and football
vk6zgo:
--- Quote from: CatalinaWOW on April 08, 2020, 05:18:29 am ---A few comments from someone who played sports at a semi-pro level as a young man, but is long past those times.
1. All the comments about a sport (or sports) being boring are really a reflection on the commenter. Soccer is boring if you don't know what is going on. Same thing for American football. And afaik for all other sports. I've never watched enough cricket (or played at all) to understand what is going on, and I do find it boring. But clearly those who do understand enjoy it a lot. I enjoy watching American football, Canadian footfall, rugby and soccer. Haven't seen much Australian rules football and thus don't understand it well, but can see how once I learned it, it would be enjoyable.
2. I learned a long time ago that it wasn't good for me to get very involved watching any sport. Because sooner or later "your" team loses. And the emotional downer (again, for me) was nearly as big as when I was playing myself. And something I had no control over. Wasn't worth it. I suspect I am not alone in this, at least among rational groups like those on this forum.
3. Workplace involvement in sports is largely related to how consuming the work is. Sports doesn't seem big in most medical settings. Many engineering jobs are fully consuming. Where I have seen sports take hold in engineering environments there have been no proximate deadlines, repetitive (even boring) tasks and other factors that made outstanding distractions attractive.
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Again, my experience differed.
The guys I referred to as "rabbiting on" about football were in a Broadcast Service Centre, where at a "moment's notice" they could be called on to travel hundreds of km across the State, & work all night to restore service at a broadcast site in some remote country town, so I would say they had "deadlines"!
No,I think it is more to do with having a "critical mass" of staff.
These same football enthusiasts didn't regale their offsider with "footy" stuff when they went away on call, & sports enthusiasm was much less in the other places where I worked, which had much smaller numbers.
Psi:
Ball sports, especially contact sports, are viewed by a large percentage of engineers as a waste of time.
It's kind of like..
"If advanced aliens every visit earth and see lots of humans running around aimlessly kicking a ball back and forth they are going to think we're morons."
You can kick a ball back and forth in your personal time, or you can be like "Thought Emporium" and mess around with DIY gene therapy in your home lab.
Sal Ammoniac:
I've never cared for football in any of its guises (American football, soccer, rugby).
But how about Rollerball? Now there's a sport I'd watch.
Circlotron:
^^ Saw that in the cinema back in the day, 1975 I think. All the guys at school were totally raving about it. Went and saw it by myself. Walked out halfway. First and only time.
--- Quote ---Rollerball was conceived not only to satisfy man's bloodlust, but to demonstrate the futility of individualism.
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--- Quote ---the entire point of the movie was to show the "sickness and insanity of contact sports and their allure."[12]
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Quotations from Wikipedia article.
unknownparticle:
Football is amongst the most overated forms of activity on Earth, and I loathe it. Aside from electronics, my other passions are motorsports, motorcycles and anything with a turbo engine, actually, anything with an engine!
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