They didn't do anything. They haven't accomplished anything or trained to reach a goal. All they did was watch other people they've never met accomplish something they never will.
Even weirder people will pic the team named after a city geographically close to them. Players are bough and sold and probably didn't grow up in the city their team is named after.
Feeling good about "your team" winning is just public masturbation.
It's feeling good by proxy.
You're not near them. They are not your friends. What is the "proxy" in this situation. Why not feel happy when any other team wins? Why choose the specific team you choose?
I asked the same question to lots of normies that like watching football. I've come to the conclusion that they "live it" in a way. When their team wins, they feel like they've won, same for when it loses. Same for when the referees wrong their team etc.
A spectator identifies with the team in a way, it's as if they were in it. The teams achievements and failures become their own. They are proud of their team.
I don't know what causes them to feel like this.
Do you genuinely not understand, or do you just disagree?
People are tribalistic and picking a sports team is usually done on the basis of where someone was born.
Sounds racist. Like I pointed out, the players on the team usually aren't even from the area. They are just hired based on their performance.
Sports is not a tribe. It is a company, making money by creating a false senses community where the members dont actually know each other, and with with no foundation other than random colors and a major city's name.
Do you genuinely not understand, or do you just disagree?
People are tribalistic and picking a sports team is usually done on the basis of where someone was born.
Sounds racist. Like I pointed out, the players on the team usually aren't even from the area. They are just hired based on their performance.
Sports is not a tribe. It is a company, making money by creating a fake community with no foundation other than made up colors and a major city's name.
It doesn't have to be rational or thought out. The same stimuli apply for people, and tribalism is what's behind the sports phenomenon. The corporatist nuances change nothing to the innate emotional response that people get from seeing "their" colours on the field.
After all, isn't all tribalism arbitrary?
They didn't do anything. They haven't accomplished anything or trained to reach a goal.
What, do you need an excuse to enjoy watching television with a bunch of people? It's just comradery and a sense of suspense, and has been around since Jousting even.
In essence, a sports game is two teams worth of fans edging and spiritually gooning to sweaty men fighting over who forcefully takes their balls. It's raw testosterone.
All they did was watch other people they've never met accomplish something they never will.
There's also admiring them for teamwork and strategy, plus people love feeling like they're a part of something, whether at a bar with a group of chums all cheering at the same time over matters of pride to someone appreciating it alone but otherwise recognizing that others are watching the same thing.
It's not too different from pre-streaming culture's interest in uniformed TV watching over Cable.
It's feeling good by proxy.
You're not near them. They are not your friends.
They are however their countrymen (or Statesmen?), even if just honorably from a contract.
Have you ever watched the winning celebrations? It's fun.
Do you genuinely not understand, or do you just disagree?
People are tribalistic and picking a sports team is usually done on the basis of where someone was born.
Sounds racist.
But it's about where they are instead of shit like the color of their skin. You even went on about how members of the team don't even have to be from there, like many a baseball team's players.
Sports is not a tribe. It is a company
Companies are tribes, and those who use their services are like subsidiaries to the tribe.
