Re:Tell HN: There is a new highlights page on HN
by brudgers on Tuesday September 26, 2023 @02:25PM
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I have had many positive sports experiences.
Photographing high school soccer was my excuse to buy a DSLR…and refereeing youth soccer was how I started understanding people and road tripping for tournament work was how I really got the travel bug.
But there’s no free lunch. I’ve seen sports tribalism used as the excuse for bullying, violence, and bad behavior in general…in myself as well as others.
It’s not that there are not thoughtful conversations to be had around sports, it is that sports has such a low barrier to trolling and reactions are often deeply emotional.
I mean asking for your specific team support would have been the low hanging troll vector.
More importantly trolling would have been within the norms of sports talk when both people aren’t saying roll tide etc.
These days, I usually read the BBC football page every day and watch Premier League on whatever day Arsenal play and have my fix by 2pm Pacific…home games are all done before noon because the gunners play early because of police coverage.
That’s enough for me now. I was in the Orange Bowl when my team beat Nebraska for its first national championship, I went to four World Cup matches, seen Shaq play for the home team, seen Valderama’s home debut, seen Kaka make his home debut, seen seen Consequo play for the home team, seen my childhood team finally win a superbowl, seen my child win two D1 youth soccer state championships and a 7A high school championship.
My fan race is mostly run and I mostly don’t miss the deep emotions that binary sports thinking once caused.
Photographing high school soccer was my excuse to buy a DSLR…and refereeing youth soccer was how I started understanding people and road tripping for tournament work was how I really got the travel bug.
But there’s no free lunch. I’ve seen sports tribalism used as the excuse for bullying, violence, and bad behavior in general…in myself as well as others.
It’s not that there are not thoughtful conversations to be had around sports, it is that sports has such a low barrier to trolling and reactions are often deeply emotional.
I mean asking for your specific team support would have been the low hanging troll vector.
More importantly trolling would have been within the norms of sports talk when both people aren’t saying roll tide etc.
These days, I usually read the BBC football page every day and watch Premier League on whatever day Arsenal play and have my fix by 2pm Pacific…home games are all done before noon because the gunners play early because of police coverage.
That’s enough for me now. I was in the Orange Bowl when my team beat Nebraska for its first national championship, I went to four World Cup matches, seen Shaq play for the home team, seen Valderama’s home debut, seen Kaka make his home debut, seen seen Consequo play for the home team, seen my childhood team finally win a superbowl, seen my child win two D1 youth soccer state championships and a 7A high school championship.
My fan race is mostly run and I mostly don’t miss the deep emotions that binary sports thinking once caused.