Captain Hindsight Posted March 17, 2010 Posted March 17, 2010 I'm writing a paper about why sports are so important to our culture and i want to include TBD in the paper. So I'm asking Why are you a sports fan? What drives you to devote the time, money and energy rooting for a team? (not just the Bills, any team) Any help you can provide would be very useful and assuming i have everyone's permission I will use some quotes from here in my final paper. Thanks in advance guys!
murra Posted March 17, 2010 Posted March 17, 2010 Watch out. Asking for homework help is most certainly going to awaken the bullies and internet gods.
Captain Hindsight Posted March 17, 2010 Author Posted March 17, 2010 Watch out. Asking for homework help is most certainly going to awaken the bullies and internet gods. Haha im aware that crossed my mind. i hope for every bad response i get two or 3 good ones
Max997 Posted March 17, 2010 Posted March 17, 2010 Unfortunately I am not rich and cant travel the world and ammuse myself as I see fit so I need something to fill the time people like being entertained, this goes back to even before the mobs watching Gladiators kill each other Are you not entertained?
BillsGuyInMalta Posted March 17, 2010 Posted March 17, 2010 Any excuse to bring this thread up again! http://forums.twobillsdrive.com/index.php?...ic=8948&hl= Sorry to pirate your thread Hamdan, I'll properly respond when I get home from work tonight. Sounds like an interesting paper.
Rob's House Posted March 17, 2010 Posted March 17, 2010 Because it's a fun and interesting distraction that can be as important or unimportant as you want it to be. Unlike politics, career, etc. your teams success really doesn't matter and has very little if any impact on YOUR real life.
Cugalabanza Posted March 17, 2010 Posted March 17, 2010 Why are you a sports fan? Because I'm a !@#$ing idiot!
Celtic_soulja Posted March 17, 2010 Posted March 17, 2010 I love sports because it's fun watching people abuse one another for no reason other than a shiny trophy...it's a battle...it's a competition...the passion of brutal power unleashed is ugly beauty...
JOHNNYFAIRPLAY Posted March 17, 2010 Posted March 17, 2010 I'm writing a paper about why sports are so important to our culture and i want to include TBD in the paper. So I'm asking Why are you a sports fan? What drives you to devote the time, money and energy rooting for a team? (not just the Bills, any team) Any help you can provide would be very useful and assuming i have everyone's permission I will use some quotes from here in my final paper. Thanks in advance guys! That paper is going to receive an "F"
Bullpen Posted March 17, 2010 Posted March 17, 2010 Hamden, It's not really sports in general, but if you need specifc quotes or something relating to baseball, read post #21 under this thread: http://forums.twobillsdrive.com/index.php?...90297&st=20 Hope that helps. PM me if you have questions.
Just Jack Posted March 17, 2010 Posted March 17, 2010 I like to root for the underdog, which in this case, has been the Bills the last 10 years.
qwksilver Posted March 17, 2010 Posted March 17, 2010 I'm writing a paper about why sports are so important to our culture and i want to include TBD in the paper. So I'm asking Why are you a sports fan? What drives you to devote the time, money and energy rooting for a team? (not just the Bills, any team) Any help you can provide would be very useful and assuming i have everyone's permission I will use some quotes from here in my final paper. Thanks in advance guys! Sports are the first and best example of REALITY TV. When you grow up in Buffalo you have to be a Sabres/Bills fan. It's in our blood.
Miyagi-Do Karate Posted March 17, 2010 Posted March 17, 2010 Sports are like the moral equivalent of war.
Webster Guy Posted March 17, 2010 Posted March 17, 2010 Here's some sports quotes (always good to use in a paper): "I always turn to the sports section first. The sports page records people's accomplishments; the front page has nothing but man's failures." ~Earl Warren "Sports is human life in microcosm." ~Howard Cosell "We are inclined that if we watch a football game or baseball game, we have taken part in it." ~John F. Kennedy, 1961 "When it comes to sports I am not particularly interested. Generally speaking, I look upon them as dangerous and tiring activities performed by people with whom I share nothing except the right to trial by jury." ~Fran Lebowitz "If the Bible has taught us nothing else, and it hasn't, it's that girls should stick to girls' sports, such as hot oil wrestling, foxy boxing, and such and such." ~Homer Simpson, The Simpsons "Pain heals. Chicks dig scars. Glory lasts forever." ~Vince McKewin, from the movie The Replacements "The essence of sports is that while you're doing it, nothing else matters, but after you stop, there is a place, generally not very important, where you would put it." ~Roger Bannister "People understand contests. You take a bunch of kids throwing rocks at random and people look askance, but if you go and hold a rock-throwing contest - people understand that." ~Don Murray
PromoTheRobot Posted March 17, 2010 Posted March 17, 2010 I have so little self-respect that I seek to find it in my hometown sports teams. Of course they are horrible so I still have no self-respect. PTR
Astrobot Posted March 18, 2010 Posted March 18, 2010 I'm a stats guy. Me love the draft because it's Stats-A-Rama. What class is this for? What's your teacher's 40 time?
rackemrack Posted March 18, 2010 Posted March 18, 2010 its a hobby, i follow supercross and moto gp because I ride, and I'm a motorcycle technician for a living. and I follow football because its something to do, and i enjoy taking pride in a local sports team. i like football over other sports because there's more game-planning and stategy involved.
DFL Posted March 18, 2010 Posted March 18, 2010 my parents instilled a very competitive spirit in me when i was little. i hate losing more than i like winning....its perverse. knowing that you were in competition w/someone, and their sense of loss was a result of your win, is the best.
BillsRUs Posted March 18, 2010 Posted March 18, 2010 my parents instilled a very competitive spirit in me when i was little. i hate losing more than i like winning....its perverse. knowing that you were in competition w/someone, and their sense of loss was a result of your win, is the best. How's being a Bill's fan working out for you then?? j/k
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