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Old 01-16-2024, 09:55 AM
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Nor do the Kansas City Chiefs, the sports team that made my hometown the Capitol of the New World Order.

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There's a logic to my stupidity (and I swear I'm funny).
One thing you've amply demonstrated over the past several days is that living isolated from society out of fear of current events/trends is more damaging to your psyche than learning to deal rationally with them (or to ignore them).
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Old 01-16-2024, 11:19 AM
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Because they're the feckin' Dallas Cowboys! 'Nuf said.

Seriously though, in order to enjoy watching sports one needs to have teams they love and teams they hate. Otherwise, there's simply no point in watching. And the Cowboys, more than any other team, are a love 'em or hate 'em team and I was born in Washington, DC, the epicenter of Cowboy hatred. In other words, it just comes natural.
Ok...reasonable.

I am more a Dak fan than a Cowboy fan. I could not watch the match because I was fearful of another failure.
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Old 01-16-2024, 12:33 PM
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One thing you've amply demonstrated over the past several days is that living isolated from society out of fear of current events/trends is more damaging to your psyche than learning to deal rationally with them (or to ignore them).
From my point of view, you are both nuts because you care about sports teams.
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Old 01-16-2024, 12:50 PM
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From my point of view, you are both nuts because you care about sports teams.
Sometimes it is hard to outgrow youthful fantasies and winter especially for some people reinforces the indulgence.
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Old 01-16-2024, 01:36 PM
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From my point of view, you are both nuts because you care about sports teams.
It's entertainment, often dramatic, a touchstone of American culture and often at the forefront of social change. This would be a different country without Jackie Robinson, Curt Flood, Muhammad Ali, Arthur Ashe, Kareem Abdul Jabbar, Don Haskins, Ed O'Bannon, Billie Jean King, Tommie Smith & John Carlos ...

I personally cannot fathom not being interested in sports and part of being interested in sports is having a deliberate bias in favor of and against certain teams. It simply makes it more fun and interesting. Why forego entertainment, particularly entertainment that is a huge part of the American experience?
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Old 01-16-2024, 01:46 PM
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One thing you've amply demonstrated over the past several days is that living isolated from society out of fear of current events/trends is more damaging to your psyche than learning to deal rationally with them (or to ignore them).
Kind of what I am thinking also.
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Old 01-16-2024, 08:43 PM
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It's entertainment, often dramatic, a touchstone of American culture and often at the forefront of social change. This would be a different country without Jackie Robinson, Curt Flood, Muhammad Ali, Arthur Ashe, Kareem Abdul Jabbar, Don Haskins, Ed O'Bannon, Billie Jean King, Tommie Smith & John Carlos ...

I personally cannot fathom not being interested in sports and part of being interested in sports is having a deliberate bias in favor of and against certain teams. It simply makes it more fun and interesting. Why forego entertainment, particularly entertainment that is a huge part of the American experience?
When I was a kid I sort of followed baseball. But I grew up near Chicago, and in those days no Chicago baseball team, especially the Cubs that were on TV the most, ever got anywhere. I think the long, persistent negative reinforcement led me to disengage utterly in self-defense. To this day I am convinced that if I have a favorite if I happen to watch a game, that fact will assure their loss.
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Old 01-17-2024, 08:09 PM
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So, the stumpbroke Cowboys got stomped?

womp, womp, womp.
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