Are you a sports fan? Tell us about fandom.
If you’re not, tell us why not.
I enjoy
going to sporting events in person, but as far as getting involved in watching
every game for a team on TV or participating in fantasy leagues, etc…I do not
have any interest because I usually get bored watching sports on TV or my mind
starts to drift to all the other things I have to do, and I get up to take care
of these chores. I do have teams that I
like to follow in hockey (The Canucks) and now football (I live in Seattle, you
can’t help but follow the Seahawks during football season here), but other than
that, I’m definitely not a fanatical fan of any sport or team. On my bucket
list is to attend at least one game of every professional sport and so far,
I’ve done that with hockey, baseball, and soccer (Canucks, Mariners, and
Sounders) , in part thanks to my move to WA.
Now, I just need to make it to a Seahawks game and a pro basketball
game, and I’ll have the most popular sports covered. Being from the south, I
should have already been to professional car racing, but I haven’t. Tennis,
golf, and cycling would be cool to see too, but I’m not sure I could stomach
boxing or MMA. That said, if the opportunity to attend such an event turned up,
I wouldn’t pass on it.
It’s good to
branch out and do things you normally wouldn’t try. Like when I lived in Spain
for a summer and attended a bull fight in Madrid with the rest of my college
classmates. In Spain, Matadors are in many ways, the equivalent of professional
sports stars here in the U.S. I never would have thought this could be an
enjoyable activity for me, but I liked it so much that I chose to go on my own
to another bull fight later in the summer when I moved down to the south of
Spain for my final month there. Afterwards, I found myself eating bull with my
Spanish family. They had purchased the meat from the bull that died at the
arena after the fight and after serving dinner and watching me eat it, asked if I knew what I was eating. I did not, but continued to feel very privileged
to have a chance to participate in their culture and traditions in this
way. Some argue against bull fighting
because the bull is killed in what some consider a not so humane manner (I
won’t go into that further in this entry), but seeing it from another
perspective, nothing goes to waste in this culture, right down to the meat of
the bull.
In the end,
I don’t consider myself a big sports fan, but I do relish the opportunity to be
a part of the fandom culture of attending games and events surrounding the
world of sports.
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