This is Why

[browngirl]

This is why I don't root for sports teams. By which I mean, if I'd been watching The Game last night and cheering along with the rest of Boston for the Red Sox, they would have lost; everyone whom I root for loses (just ask the people I watch Jeopardy with).

Of course, this is the other reason. "Our team won! Let's go riot! Woohoo!"

Comments

[bikergeek.livejournal.com]

As opposed to, "Our team lost! Let's go riot!"?

[browngirl.livejournal.com]

Yes, sweetie, obviously my point was to say that only the losing team's fellow citizens are permitted to riot.

[bikergeek.livejournal.com]

My point was that in this town, as well as many others, the fans riot whether the team wins or loses, so invoking Murphy's Law to try to avert a riot won't work. :-)

[browngirl.livejournal.com]

Oh, if I had the power to avert riots!

[bikergeek.livejournal.com]

Unfortunately it's easier to start riots than avert them. "It takes an idiot to raze a village."

[vettecat.livejournal.com]

You too? I thought it was just me. (With group sports, anyway.)

[browngirl.livejournal.com]

Nope, not just you. :) When I was younger I used to follow individual ice skaters and swimmers and so on, but I've never been much for team sports.

[vettecat.livejournal.com]

Likewise. The only sport I really enjoy watching is ice skating.

[flabosib.livejournal.com]

Not everyone who roots for a sports team thinks, "Our team won/lost! Let's go riot!" Some of us think, "Our team won/lost! How can we avoid the idjits who are rioting?"

[browngirl.livejournal.com]

Fear not, I know. And it's not like you're your fellow sports fan's keeper. But it does seem to be a depressingly common reaction....