triple6mafia
April-29th-2004, 07:21 PM
i know i can relate...
http://www.livejournal.com/users/naquinpt/
People have often asked me why watching sports is so great. I have been asked what does it matter if my team wins or loses, it does not effect me personally. Some say that I do not even know the players so why should I care or it is just a game... big deal. Well they are right in one aspect, it is a big deal. Sports teams to sports fans is like the healt of a plant to its garndener. For instance if a gardnerers plant were to become sick, the gardnerer would become sad and do whatever he or she could to fix it. LIkewise if the plant was healthy, the gardener would most likely boast about the plant and praise, at the same time feeling a sense of accomplishment and joy inside. Sports to a sports fans is very similar, yet there are a few differences.
Since I could remember I have been a Redskins fan. On Sundays in my house we would always replace our American Flag outside with our Burgandy and Gold Redskins flag in hope that the flag would bring victory to our team. The TV would always be muted and instead my dad would put on the popular Redskins announcers Sonny Jurgensen, Sam Huff, and Frank Herzog. For christmas we always recieved Redskins sweatshirts, sweats, and jerseys, even when I was a little baby I had a redskins bib. Throughout my childhood my dad constantly wore a 1992 Super Bowl Champions sweatshirt to remind me of the greatness the Redskins once endured. My father was able to enjoy a decade where the Redskins won three super bowls, an great achievement for any sports franchise. Yet I have been unfortunate to have only experienced one playoff berth since I have admently watched the Skins. But as you can see it is almost as if it were my fate to become a redskins fan, it was how I was brought up. I will have to admit though, I really never understood much of what was going on or understood the whole concept of being a sports fan as a child. I never understood why my father would always yell when our team lost the ball or why he would get so happy when we scored a touchdown. This all changed in early 2000.
It was the first time that the Redskins made the playoffs since I had become a fan and they had a chance to go all the way. In a playoff game on Jan 15 against the Bucs, they had a chance to come back late in the game and tie the game with a short field goal, but the snap was bad and in an attempt to save the play, holder/QB Brad Johnson (who now plays for the Bucs) was sacked ending the Redskins playoff run. I remember feeling as though someone I knew had died, a feeling like I was shot in the leg, like I just jumped in a freezing body of water and my breath was instantly taken away. I did not understand why I felt like that though. It was just a stupid football game, but after many years I think I have relized the answer. As stupid as it sounds, I am a part of that Redskins organization, by watching them on TV, attending games, buying their merchandise, reading about their stats and lives in the paper, I am putting my time and my money into them. You might say that is ridicolous, well point number one: where do you think teams get money to bring in players to their teams? From me the fan. Essentialy I am paying for these players and I too have an invesment in them. Point number two: How can attending a game make you a part of the team? Well, ask any current NFL player and they will tell you that the stadium they most playing at is Lambeau Field (Green Bay Packers). The reason they would say this is because Green Bay has some of the most loyal, loudest, and just overall best fans in the league. Playing there admist all the noise is nerve recking (not to mention the cold weather) and if you do not believe me, take a look at Green Bay's home win record.
So back to my overall point of this whole rant, I invest time and money into the Redskins, so just like anything else you invest time and money into, you are disappointed when it fails to meet expectations (no matter how high they are) and you feel a sense of great satisfaction which is almost irreplicable in any other aspect of life when your investment exceeds expectations. So next time you hear some stupid sports fan singing their ridiculous team song (Hail to the redskins...), wearing a ridicoulous looking team jersey, getting over excited for a number up on a scoreboard, just remember that these people have an investment and just like everyone else in this world they are looking for something that makes them happy, in their cases its sports, in mine its the redskins....
http://www.livejournal.com/users/naquinpt/
People have often asked me why watching sports is so great. I have been asked what does it matter if my team wins or loses, it does not effect me personally. Some say that I do not even know the players so why should I care or it is just a game... big deal. Well they are right in one aspect, it is a big deal. Sports teams to sports fans is like the healt of a plant to its garndener. For instance if a gardnerers plant were to become sick, the gardnerer would become sad and do whatever he or she could to fix it. LIkewise if the plant was healthy, the gardener would most likely boast about the plant and praise, at the same time feeling a sense of accomplishment and joy inside. Sports to a sports fans is very similar, yet there are a few differences.
Since I could remember I have been a Redskins fan. On Sundays in my house we would always replace our American Flag outside with our Burgandy and Gold Redskins flag in hope that the flag would bring victory to our team. The TV would always be muted and instead my dad would put on the popular Redskins announcers Sonny Jurgensen, Sam Huff, and Frank Herzog. For christmas we always recieved Redskins sweatshirts, sweats, and jerseys, even when I was a little baby I had a redskins bib. Throughout my childhood my dad constantly wore a 1992 Super Bowl Champions sweatshirt to remind me of the greatness the Redskins once endured. My father was able to enjoy a decade where the Redskins won three super bowls, an great achievement for any sports franchise. Yet I have been unfortunate to have only experienced one playoff berth since I have admently watched the Skins. But as you can see it is almost as if it were my fate to become a redskins fan, it was how I was brought up. I will have to admit though, I really never understood much of what was going on or understood the whole concept of being a sports fan as a child. I never understood why my father would always yell when our team lost the ball or why he would get so happy when we scored a touchdown. This all changed in early 2000.
It was the first time that the Redskins made the playoffs since I had become a fan and they had a chance to go all the way. In a playoff game on Jan 15 against the Bucs, they had a chance to come back late in the game and tie the game with a short field goal, but the snap was bad and in an attempt to save the play, holder/QB Brad Johnson (who now plays for the Bucs) was sacked ending the Redskins playoff run. I remember feeling as though someone I knew had died, a feeling like I was shot in the leg, like I just jumped in a freezing body of water and my breath was instantly taken away. I did not understand why I felt like that though. It was just a stupid football game, but after many years I think I have relized the answer. As stupid as it sounds, I am a part of that Redskins organization, by watching them on TV, attending games, buying their merchandise, reading about their stats and lives in the paper, I am putting my time and my money into them. You might say that is ridicolous, well point number one: where do you think teams get money to bring in players to their teams? From me the fan. Essentialy I am paying for these players and I too have an invesment in them. Point number two: How can attending a game make you a part of the team? Well, ask any current NFL player and they will tell you that the stadium they most playing at is Lambeau Field (Green Bay Packers). The reason they would say this is because Green Bay has some of the most loyal, loudest, and just overall best fans in the league. Playing there admist all the noise is nerve recking (not to mention the cold weather) and if you do not believe me, take a look at Green Bay's home win record.
So back to my overall point of this whole rant, I invest time and money into the Redskins, so just like anything else you invest time and money into, you are disappointed when it fails to meet expectations (no matter how high they are) and you feel a sense of great satisfaction which is almost irreplicable in any other aspect of life when your investment exceeds expectations. So next time you hear some stupid sports fan singing their ridiculous team song (Hail to the redskins...), wearing a ridicoulous looking team jersey, getting over excited for a number up on a scoreboard, just remember that these people have an investment and just like everyone else in this world they are looking for something that makes them happy, in their cases its sports, in mine its the redskins....