For those of you who help with testing, it’s that time of year again.
Starting about this weekend,
– Friday nights are high school football games*
– Saturday afternoons are college football games*
– Sundays are Pro football games*
* Every generalization has an exception
A few student-run college stations may start coming back to life, but most of them “organize” the station as part of a radio class, teaching useful real life skills like creating a program schedule and picking a music format (like anything non-commercial and really loud, dude – I’m a non-conformist, know what I mean?)… so they tend to not show up online until about Thanksgiving.
Those of you have been here a while may know I’m not a sports fan…. one of my current activities for entertainment is to go to Youtube and add comments to soccer videos (aka football) trolling Euopeans to call us Americans stupid….
In 1960, I was addicted to baseball. I still can name every player on the 1960 Pittsburgh Pirates’ roster, including the second-stringers, bench warmers, coaches, sub-coaches, sponsors, announcers, substitute announcers, batting averages, RBI stats, won-loss pitching records, relief pitcher saves, the dimensions of Forbes field (RiP) and on and on. I remember the Benny Benack Six and “beat ’em Bucs!” When the Steelers virtually owned the NFL, I assumed a similar level of sports scholarship. Then, the pros implacably became the “pros.” Today, I can’t name a single Pirate and only one or two Steelers. I don’t like the jockocracy and couldn’t care less who wins, loses or draws. The relief is palpable.
I grew up in Pittsburgh about the same time, and went to games at Forbes field about 4 times, riding the streetcars to Oakland. I kind of thought having the short right field and loading up on left handed batters was kind of cheating. One of my fondest memories was my mother taking me to “Fan night”. I’m sure someone thought it was a clever concept :)
Hey, Kennywoood is open – made you look!
I went to Three Rivers stadium twice I think, and it was miserable.
I am apparently a certified weirdo due to neither watching nor listening nor caring even the slightest about sports at any level…. from pee wee leagues all the way up the scale to the pro level including the sports at the “senior” level.
Unable to comprehend how a human can become a fan (short or fanatic… similar to an addict, in a way).
Not that I view those passionate about sports as sub-human. It is their pejorative and does not impact my futile meaningless existence in the slightest.
I believe in many cases (exceptions exist always, Herd) being a “fan” of a sport or a certain team(s) etc is a behavior / trait learned while young.
I AM disgusted, though, how the MANY and varied “costs” of sports and those engaged in them in whatever manner, often at much-higher-than-average pay rates, are passed along to ALL consumers and oft-times taxpayers, even those who do not receive any benefit from the existence of sports; especially professional sports.
A subject quite complex and impossible to cover here but even those abstaining from sports in every way imaginable still pay the costs thereof in the proce of goods and services, no matter how seemingly remote those goods and services are from the “sports scene.”
Basically a scheme/scam of wealth transferrance from the many to the few yet the USA’s fine-tuned and well-hone propaganda system has led the HUGE herd of bleating sheep citizenry to ignore that form of “welfare” yet crying out, severly aghat, when children existing in poverty through no fault of their own get a few coins tossed in their direction.
What a sick disgusting society we exist within yet as “things” are is assuredly correct and proper and to think otherwise is unAmerican, against the troops and I better just “love it or leave it” as I suppose the Founding Fathers should have done back in the late 1700s when the lawful existing order at that time was in place.