I've been sitting here wondering why men are so competitive at sports, why would you want to move that football down the field, and it hit me, guys want to try to prove that they are the supereor to the men that they are pitted against. They want to show the women that they are a good genetic specimen. I finally get it. I was wondering why all the fuss. However I have no idea on how it became such a phenomena. I beg you, please feed me your input.

You think too much. Football and sports are games. Games are fun.......

Right on, and such should be life. Our destiny is only covered by our actions.

I'm going with what the other guy said and just simply put they are games. Football is Chess played on a field. There is a whole lot more to it than hitting someone. Even though that part is really fun.

Here is a thought though. You know those rams that smash their heads together to impress the doe? They don't watch sports, at least as far as I know. To the doe's though they are a phenomena as you put it. It's natural selection for a good strong baby.

Maybe, you know because we are human and all. We tend to blow things out as big as we can. So your natural selection phenomena could be justified I guess. We as people, humans, mankind just like to show our @ss to as many people as we can. Of course I think natural selection would work backwards that way, because if I'm a big time player, rolling in the money, living like a rock star. It's the woman that better impress me..just sayin'

I personally think you should just drink some beer with your boys yell at a game. pound some shots. have nachos, burgers & hot dogs. Maybe trade in the sandals for some kick *** sneaks and enjoy being a man. It's a hellova' good life.

I've been playing Second Life, and I accidently stumbled into the this sex forest area, I know exactly what you're talking about.

It's a thinker.

I.......think I need another beer

I just don't get it, maybe I'm weird. I don't wear sandals and although I'm a hippie I assure you I'm 110% man, I'm just intelligent. I'm not saying that anyone who likes sports is unintelligent, I'm just wondering about the implications of proffessional sports to our psyche. Just wondering.

The thing that gets me about sports is how personal it has become to people.
Example, when the LA Lakers won the big championship a few years ago, the idiots in LA rioted in the streets over it. They destroyed everything in their path....and that was a celebration!!...what would they do if the Lakers had lost??

Get grip people, its only a game.

Don't go dissin' my college football or nascar!

Not dissin it. Just pondering it.

To me football is stupid. A bunch of grown men fighting over something they can all go buy at walmart. Walmart has alot of footballs in stock. So. Why fight over one.

Well, from a womens perspective, I don't understand football and alot of other games either, buy my last boyfriend used to take me to alot of games, I just get a rush being there, it's so freakin fun, the electricity in the air, the energy is great, it's like the ancient gladiators sorta, only more civilized, it's too show off, and it's good old fashioned competitiveness at it's finest. How better way to waste a Sunday!!! Or Monday night!!

Oh and my son played HS football and loved it, so anything my son loved is good enough for me, he would have given his right arm to play college football but it didn't happen for him,

That's a great perspective Italy. I guess I could see it like that.

Thanks

yeah being at the games is awesome!.when the crowd starts getting loud,it really pumps you up and fills you with energy!

I was just joking about the sandals, just trying to get a laugh out of ya. Besides most of the BS I spewed this part is what I was trying to covey.

"Of course I think natural selection would work backwards that way, because if I'm a big time player, rolling in the money, living like a rock star. It's the woman that better impress me..just sayin'"

Why every kid wants to be a rock star or a athlete. Too make the women chase them and not the other way around. I do however think it's sad if a fan identifies his personality through a team. Being up when they are good and down when they are low. Then again people have their passions who am I to judge?

I never got into any team sport. (I was raised in a karate school so the concept of a team never set well with me) The thought that someone else on my side could lose for me....hell no.

I got my younger coworkers who get all worked up and either elated or furious over the fantasy football crap.

They lose sleep over the college drafts.

They hate it when I point out that none of them went to college.

My favorite thing is to point out the gay factor. Aside from the fact that all those guys insist on wearing tights...I point out the obvious......I watch the cheer leaders. They watch the muscley guys in tights. I ask em "When you go to a strip joint, do you queers watch the bouncers or the strippers?"


But, the main reason I refuse to watch any of that crap...if a guy who is making millions can use the word "play" in his job description...it aint a friggen job. They sure as hell dont deserve that kind of salary for playing a childs game.

Nascar is not a sport. At least it hasn't been since they took the moonshine out of the trunk.



You telling me you don't do sand volleyball or really try hard with a hacky sack? What about frisbee? Frisbee golf? Those are all sports I've played with other hippies, and believe me, there was competition.

Look men play sports because we've always tried to "one up" the other guys around us. If it's just guys around, one of us farts, we all laugh and then someone tries to cut a louder one. Since we first started banding together as societies we've been doing this stuff. I'm sure the first cave man to drag home a deer, had some friend make him look bad by bringing home a mastodon.

Why do we act like this? The same reason men do anything, to impress women. If it weren't for women we'd of died off as a species long ago because we wouldn't have even bothered to look for food. I'm sure the game of chess was invented by two nerds so one could look better than the other. Sarcasm was probably invented by some guy that couldn't cut it at jousting. We're guys, ripping on each other is what we do, some do it at sports.