How do I "get more into sports"

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Now, I'm a young guy who enjoys sports. I'm not like a superfan or anything, but I enjoy the stuff. Football and basketball are cool to me. I played football in high school. Didn't enjoy playing the game (I'm scrawny and weak), but I realized that I enjoyed the game ITSELF. I honestly can't really consider myself a fan of any specific team because I simply never watch enough sports.

It's a problem because I LIKE it. I like being in the barbershop with Sportscenter on and hearing grown *** men cuss each other out over the stuff, and I enjoy going to Fridays or some other "family establishment" and getting faded and watching everybody go ape**** over Lebron and ****, but I'm trying to figure out how to become more "learned" in the subject.

Most people who are fans of sports have been fans since childhood. My pops and best friend are both Jets fans and Knicks fans, and when I was a kid my friends would always come to me at school and be like "son did you watch the game last night?" and I'd be like "WTF were you not watching Rugrats?" So I was never "molded" into that world as a child. I was into wayyy too much other stuff. But when people talk and argue about sports and players I'm never able to contribute to the conversation, even though I'd like to.

So, the question is this: how can I become "more" into sports? I know that a proper answer is to watch the damn games, but I'm literally never home. I work part time and go to school full time and when I'm not doing those, I'm drinking in some hole somewhere.

Please don't laugh me off of the internet for making this thread
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honestly the only way is to watch. i played sports as a kid but never followed sports closely until i was about 14 or 15. it just took actually sitting down, watching the games, and seeing what you like.
 
Don't support teams from Texas, Ohio, or New York. Should alleviate a lot of the pain that comes along with being a sports fan.

And yeah, watch the games. Find the sports that interest you. MLB is a great sleep aid.
 
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do work son said:
honestly the only way is to watch. i played sports as a kid but never followed sports closely until i was about 14 or 15. it just took actually sitting down, watching the games, and seeing what you like.
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I feel you

I suppose I should just get watching whenever I'm home
Chester McFloppy said:
Don't support teams from Texas, Ohio, or New York. Should alleviate a lot of the pain that comes along with being a sports fan.

And yeah, watch the games. Find the sports that interest you. MLB is a great sleep aid.
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I'm from New York and I comprehend fully the agony that comes with being a fan of both the Knicks and the Jets

And I'll continue to use NyQuil thx
 
KingdomFlatbush said:
Please don't laugh me off of the internet for making this thread :frown:

Now, I'm a young guy who enjoys sports. I'm not like a superfan or anything, but I enjoy the stuff. Football and basketball are cool to me. I played football in high school. Didn't enjoy playing the game (I'm scrawny and weak), but I realized that I enjoyed the game ITSELF. I honestly can't really consider myself a fan of any specific team because I simply never watch enough sports.

It's a problem because I LIKE it. I like being in the barbershop with Sportscenter on and hearing grown *** men cuss each other out over the stuff, and I enjoy going to Fridays or some other "family establishment" and getting faded and watching everybody go ape**** over Lebron and ****, but I'm trying to figure out how to become more "learned" in the subject.

Most people who are fans of sports have been fans since childhood. My pops and best friend are both Jets fans and Knicks fans, and when I was a kid my friends would always come to me at school and be like "son did you watch the game last night?" and I'd be like "WTF were you not watching Rugrats?" So I was never "molded" into that world as a child. I was into wayyy too much other stuff. But when people talk and argue about sports and players I'm never able to contribute to the conversation, even though I'd like to.

So, the question is this: how can I become "more" into sports? I know that a proper answer is to watch the damn games, but I'm literally never home. I work part time and go to school full time and when I'm not doing those, I'm drinking in some hole somewhere.

Please don't laugh me off of the internet for making this thread :frown:
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Nah bro nobody is going to laugh at you.

I have a few friends like you. Casual sports fans, but they often feel lost in heated conversations. Hell some are even fantastic athletes and have played sports at various levels. They just do not follow the pro ranks.

They don't really have any affiliations in terms of teams.


My advice to you is to stay in your lane. Be yourself. It's okay not to feverishly follow sports. It's an acquired taste, something that people who aren't exposed to sports early and often in life understandably might not relate to. A lot of us either grew up in households with sports fanatics or just took up an interest young. You went another way and that's completely fine.

You don't have to be knowledgeable to enjoy sport. Just catch games whenever you can, nobody is going to revoke your man card because you aren't up on all the current events. S'all good man. Don't force it man, let the interest come to you organically.

In other words there isn't a "way", it just happens.
 
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You gotta understand competition and the passion to win. Not gonna lie though, kinda lost interest the past couple yrs except when the playoffs start..
 
Read.

Start here. (NT). Twitter. Blogs. ESPN.com. SI. (Mag or .com). Actual sport sites, MLB, NBA, NFL.com's.

Then, watch.

As many games as you can handle. Listen to the broadcasts, pull as much data/info as you can. Start to gather different views on players/teams, see who interest you, who you associate with.

Once you do all that, you'll naturally gravitate to certain players/teams/sports and pick up things as you go along.

Do all that, after a few months you should have enough to either keep you interested for good, or let it pass as just a phase.
 
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Why do you feel the need to be a fan of a team?

I am like you. No team affiliation. I like certain players. Don't like any team in particular. No horse in the race.

What is wrong with this style of viewership?

Nothing
 
Easy man.

1. Pick a local team no matter how bad they are. If you have a professional team in your local market and you choose another team because they're better, you've already started on the wrong foot.
2. Start watching those teams and try to take part in a web forum of said team, it will increase your knowledge.
3. Stay loyal. No matter how crappy your team is, continue watching. The good times aren't as enjoyable if you don't experience the bad.
 
I know a lot of people won't agree with me on this one but if you don't have a ton of free time just watch SPORTSCENTER and leave it on whenever you're at the house. It's not the best source of sports media but it covers a broad range of topics and it's damn near on all the time.
 
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Why do you feel the need to be a fan of a team?

I am like you. No team affiliation. I like certain players. Don't like any team in particular. No horse in the race.

What is wrong with this style of viewership?

Nothing
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What. He literally said is objective is to be more learned.

Like @4one5  said the more you understand the more you will find it interesting. 

Thinking outside the box OP are you into video games? 2K, Madden, FIFA offer a completely different frame of thinking about the game vs watching on TV.

I've seen the FIFA franchise take countless people from absolutely zero interest to avid soccer fans. 

Another suggestion is to try and go watch actual games in person.
 
If you want to attend a baseball game but don't have anyone to go with or feel like you won't understand what's going on, bring a radio with you and listen to the radio call while watching. A lot of people do this and you can receive commentary while still being there in person. I swear the experience is different when you're actually there.
 
Trying to rep everybody in this thread but I seem to have hit my limit; I'll rep everyone else tomorrow.


Some good advice in this thread; not to be on some bandwagon **** but since I live in South Florida I feel it might be the most prudent to follow the Heat and the Nets, since I'm from BK . Come football season I plan to follow the Giants. I have no faith in the Knicks.

To the guy who asked me about gaming yeah I enjoy video games quite a bit. When I cop my PS4 I plan to get that 2k. NBA street, Hangtime, and NFL Blitz are classics

I wish I understood the "subliminal shots" in the thread. Anyone care to explain
 
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