Ack, I think I've misspoken if I've given the impression that I have a problem with people enjoying [certain] team sports in and of themselves. We all have our entertainments and our hobbies, and even our passions.
What I have a problem with is the exalted position team sports have in US culture, their "All-American" status, their normalcy. Having been mocked (and knowing guys who were seriously bullied) for liking science fiction by people whose devotion ran as deep or deeper to team sports, and having watched my fellow students discouraged from reading and writing for fun in favor of watching sports, I tend to view them with a jaundiced eye. As the Onion once put it, "Walking Sports Database Scorns Walking Sci-Fi Database (http://www.theonion.com/content/node/38664)".T hat was what I didn't want to agree with, when I decided that I didn't have to support that idea to respect this particular team's accomplishment.
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What I have a problem with is the exalted position team sports have in US culture, their "All-American" status, their normalcy. Having been mocked (and knowing guys who were seriously bullied) for liking science fiction by people whose devotion ran as deep or deeper to team sports, and having watched my fellow students discouraged from reading and writing for fun in favor of watching sports, I tend to view them with a jaundiced eye. As the Onion once put it, "Walking Sports Database Scorns Walking Sci-Fi Database (http://www.theonion.com/content/node/38664)".T hat was what I didn't want to agree with, when I decided that I didn't have to support that idea to respect this particular team's accomplishment.
*rereads*
Possibly, I am occasionally bitter. *smiles*