Do you watch sports to escape?

[Swede]

I do. The crushing wieght of world events is too much. Time for some football.

[babylonsister]

1. I've watched sports since I was knee high to a grasshopper, but

only football. If liking a sport is an escape, I'm in!

[Ferret Annica]

16. Nope, don't like to

It is boring and pointless. I have seldom watched a full football game. Both football and basketball I see nothing of interest going on. Track and field, bicycle racing or swimming competitions I like. But I would rather go on a long bicycle ride, walk or run them sit like a vegetable in front of the TV or waste time going to the local universities inane sports follies.

[TahitiNut]

2. Circuses. Bread and circuses.

It's worked for thousands of years.

[Swede]

3. Oh,I'll be back T.

I just can't take this 24/7.

[northzax]

4. no, I drink to escape

I watch sports for the glory of seeing Ohio State lose!

[Mabus]

5. I watch sports

My two favorite pasttimes are politics and sports. Friday night we had a small pre-season basketball party before "Late Night at the Phog". Yesteray we went to a tailgating party and a college football game - our Jayhawks managed to lose their first half lead and got beat pretty soundly by the OSU Cowboys. Today, it is off to the Chicago Bulls-Seattle Supersonics exhibition game.

We also watch boxing, track & field and sumo wrestling.

I come from an atheletic family. Sports has always been a refuge for us to blow off steam and clear the cobwebs.

[JackRiddler]

6. What escape?

The Mets are doomed. They can still beat the Cards, but the Tigers are a lock. How is all this suffering an escape?

[Reverend_Smitty]

7. but we are Mets fans...we are SUPPOSED to suffer

I made a comment last night that if I weren't a sports fan, I'd be a much happier person, and if I weren't a fan of politics...cripes I'd be the happiest person on the planet. Maybe it's something about always experiencing crushing defeats that is supposed to make me a stronger person

[Captain Hilts]

10. Yes, but the Mets and their fans have an excuse to lose this year...

I mean, we lost two starting pitchers the last two weeks of the season.

I can't believe 'we' got past LA.

[Captain Hilts]

8. Yes. There are Good Guys ['Skins] and Bad Guys [Cowboys]

I hate the Dallas Cowboys. If they played Saddam Hussein and the Republican Guard, I would root for Saddam Hussein and the Republican Guard. I hate the wives, kids, girlfriends, their pets and their houseplants.

Absolutely. It take my mind off of the news.

[sce56]

9. The problem is that now days sports is more important than honest news!

The sports world is creating a society where people care more about their team than who is representing them in congress! I believe it is part of the dumbing down of America. Politicians use sports to their benefit also look at Bush he used family influence to get a new stadium built for his team increasing the value of his franchise four fold before he sold them what a profit on the backs of the local tax base!



Got Fascism Yet?


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[Captain Hilts]

11. I'm a sportsfan who opposes public funding of stadiums. Baltimore's

being a classic example. Putting public money into a stadiusm - especially a football stadium - is not only welfare for the wealthy, it's a waste.

Keep the Nationals playing at RFK. Put $100m into tarting it up and the District will have saved $600m that is better used elsewhere.

[Iwasthere]

12. Sure do... but when it is over right back to worrying and pushing VOTE!

Going to watch the Seahawks crush SL in 20 minutes.

[Captain Hilts]

13. Sports enhance a feeling of community, of 'belonging' to something.

A friend of mine was going to her brother in law's birthday. He's a Long Island boy and Mets fan. I offered her my Official NYMets jersey with 'Mookie' and '1' on the back to wear the party. So, skeptically, she did.

Well, walking to the party - and this is Washington, DC mind you - folks honked and waved and when she got to the restaurant her brother in law was thrilled. Walking around with some of the kids to show them the tortilla machine she overheard other customers saying "well, she must be nice because she's a Mookie fan."

Now she's not so confused when I'm wearing my Mookie or 'Jurgensen' 'Skins' jersey and total strangers honk and wave. Especially when they're black guys. I'm white and it's great to high-five strangers over the jersies we're wearing.

[blues90]

14. never been into sports but I had escapes

I used music as an escape but lately find there in no new music that does it for me now .

I had hobbies , they have been put on hold for financial reasons so now I am desperate for an escape . Now days there is so much crap going on and everything seems to have political ties .

I don;t drink or do anything else , if I did I would be in big trouble .

[seabeyond]

15. my hubby doesnt think so. just watched for entertainment value

mental detector though could be his escape, lol lol

but he did his escape this morning and ready for some footie footie football too

[we can do it]

17. No - They Are Fixed, Too