I don't get the whole "mine is bigger" sports stuff

[Moonbeam_Starlight]

you know, the "MY TEAM (THINGIE) IS BETTER! (BIGGER!)"

Sometimes, when I see two guys arguing over whose team is better, I half expect both of them to whip it out right there and compare and then beat each other with them.

Take THAT! ::smack::

[UpsideDownFlag]

1. ..team being better and penis being bigger are in now way related.

it could possibly be compared with fishing or hunting, maybe...but the deal with sports is that some way or another, people develop sports loyalties, either b/c of players on that team, or regional loyalty. (people from philly swear by the Eagles, for instance).

nothing to do with penises.

[The Straight Story]

2. Yeah, well my sun server is bigger than your windows box

Whipping it out - 4 processors, gig ram, 20 hard drives....yeah, know what your talking about. We get into tech discussions at work where people compare systems. I tell my engineers it is not what system you have, it is what you do with it that matters.

[JohnKleeb]

3. its frustration sigh

Lemme put it to you this way, when my team last had a good shot at going all the way, I was around your daughter's age, it just hurts to see the yankees get big names year after year and then see your team flop, granted Steinbrenner knows how to own a team and Angelos knows fucking nothing, it bites, so you begin to hate the yankees even more :D.

[JVS]

4. You just don't get it

By arguing the merits of a sports team several things are accomplished

1) Constructing the argument helps us to believe that our team actually has a chance. This makes us happy.

2) It serves as a recitation of our deepest held beliefs. By repeating our creeds we reaffirm our beliefs and stand behing them. Some people are used to saying "We believe in one God, the Father, the Almighty, maker of heaven and earth, of all that is, seen and unseen...He will come again in glory to judge the living and the dead...We look for the resurrection of the dead, and the life of the world to come. Amen" For others it is a statement of their deepest faith to say "I believe in the Red Sox...The Yankees only win because they spend so much money...We look for deliverance from the curse of the Bambino. Amen"

3) If we are right we can gloat later,

4) If we are wrong it is of little consequence.

[LSdemocrat]

5. Why do you assume that the people in sports threads are guys?

[Heyo]

6. When you're a fan of a sports team..

... you want them to win.

Me, I am not really a sports fan, (except NASCAR) but I always go for the loyalty of where I live and am from.. so even though I don't watch any games, if asked I go Dolphins, Heat, Panthers.... true to my hometown.

Heyo

[qnr]

7. I don't particularly care for sports, but

I still have my loyalties... Granted, they're kind of strange considering I live in a small western Oklahoma town heheheh

NY Yankees, Buffalo Bills, and UMaine Black Bears get me interested a bit

[Spider Jerusalem]

8. Team loyalty and rivalry are a sort of vicarious substitute for warfare.

It seems to satisfy some primal need a lot of people (but not all) have for conflict and aggression. But, even though I can understand it on a psychological level, I still think it's amazingly stupid.

[LeftyMom]

9. Nothin' phallic about it

I'm a fanatic for the local team. In the case of my fellow Sacramentans, this probably relates to feelings of inadeqacy. We have little else to brag about (our soulless subdivisions are blander than yours, our beaurocracy is lazier than yours, our traffic is worse than yours...) but we've still got the Kings. They can play, they're nice guys they're good looking, what's not to like (except for that ball hogging looser Chris Webber, but I digress.)

In a society with no real mythology of it's own people make thier own heroes. Some poor saps drink the koolaid and buy shrubya's bs. Some get into organized religion, televangelists, pyramid schemes, arnie movies, arnie's political career, etc. Some of us chase the kids into the backyard, sit down with a beverage and some snacks and pray that our mythic heroes will defeat the evil ones (the huge nearly invincible champion of evil's weakness turns out to be his toe! Tell me that's not mythic?) It's a pretty harmless release.

It has nothing to do with the size of my penis, 'cause I don't have one. ;)