People are attacking the OP but let me share my take. I went to a school that performs exceptionally well in football, as in it is pretty much creating a dynasty in the sport at a college level right now with top recruits and multiple championships. With college sports, it makes sense to root for the team if you go to the school itself or if you are an alumni linking up with old friends here and there. There are degrees and levels to this. If you are a casual that follows the sport for their team, then okay.
However, I have noticed that the most intense sports fans I have seen in my life were almost always losers. The guys I knew from my days at work that watch Sportscenter all day and gossip about sports are almost always normie losers with average marriages and average lives. In fact, I would say that religiously following sports and caring what Stephen A. Smith or Skip Bayless have to say is probably the one way to throw in the towel on life and accept mediocrity for the rest of your days.
I cannot stand it either because when you work in the corporate world, you are surrounded by these loser type of normies with failing marriages, receding hairlines, and fattening cheeks. Then these guys get their prowess in life out of debating what some athlete is doing as opposed to doing anything worthwhile themselves. These are the same guys who would attack a user on here for getting laid in their 30s with attractive women. I have also noticed that I see the following demographics obsess with sports a lot.
Loud and incel looking white dudes.
There is a distinct look and vibe to them that makes them uniquely more irritating and annoying than the typical incel. They are almost always this cranky, argumentative, and bitter guy that latches on to sports. It is the only thing they live for and it gets worse in the south as
@Bible_Belt talks about as these are your former burned out frat bros who latch on to their old football teams despite never having played the sport themselves. I cannot describe them in a greater detail but you know one when you see and meet one, always unpleasant to be around.
Burned out former high school athletes that never made it.
The guy who played on the high school football team and was even a back up on a good one. The one who never got recruited to play for a college. The one who could not make it in the sport himself. That was their glory days and now they latch on to them in whatever way they can. They will obsess over sports and try to come off as know it alls about the pro sport itself despite never having come close to making it themselves. Always the worst dudes to deal with.
The older black dude (or middle aged one) in the group who is usually a token.
Gives off a strong Stephen A Smith vibe and is always the one who is trying to fit in with his white coworkers. Always the most opinionated one trying to show off his sports knowledge to his white coworkers. Maybe it is because I come from Atlanta but this kind of a dude is practically a staple in every Atlanta corporate office lol. Forgive me for this but you know I am on to something here
@Jake_Gyllenhaal69.
I have never met a serious sports fan that was winning with women and with life in all of my years of following sports.
