I prefer to play the sports not watch it.
Same here. Playing sports is a form of exercise, which can help your health. It can also indirectly help you in picking up women.
When you don't watch sports, you have more free time to play them.
Am I missing out by not being a normie sports bro by being a condensing @$$hat or are my thoughts valid?
Your thoughts are valid. Two old school Return of Kings articles officially ended my sports watching time, though I started cutting down around 2010/2011. The 2014 article was written by Aaron Clarey, who is still in 2022 considered a Manosphere influencer of significance.
https://www.returnofkings.com/10506/stop-watching-sports (published 2013)
https://www.returnofkings.com/35066/play-sports-dont-watch-them (published 2014)
Being a normie sports bro is a complete waste of time. You get nothing out of it. It is idolatry of quasi alpha males who don't exactly give a shiit about you personally. If you ever met a pro athlete in public, he would not be your friend and he'd try to undermine you in seducing women at a bar. Also, you're making some rich people even richer (pro sports team owners).
College sports are an even bigger waste than pro sports. The whole environment around college sports are messed up. Basketball and football contribute almost nothing to broader knowledge. It's a shame when a university is more known for its football and basketball teams than the achievements of its academic departments, which is often the case at larger public universities. It is good that Harvard and Yale are more known for their business, law, and medicine academic programs than their sports teams.
The saddest thing I heard was my friend said he might actually get sex from his wife tonight because the team won lol. TBH, I think this is quite fvcking sad to let your sex life be determined by a bunch of men on a team, but this is how most guys live apparently. TBH, I was not getting a laid lot when I was your typical fan boy going to every college football game and letting a team determine my emotional state.
I believe these stories from normies.
Super Bowl parties in my social circle became very couples oriented and unpleasant when I wasn't in a couple.
The Super Bowl 48 in February 2014 party was the last good one in my local area social circle simply because there were no girlfriends there. Few people in my social circle were in relationships then. The ones that were in relationships at that time either did not attend that year's party or didn't bring their girlfriends mainly because the relationship was rather new. Fast forward one year to Super Bowl 49 in February 2015 discussed above and all the dynamics changed. All the guys were bringing girlfriends and all Super Bowl parties in my social circle from that point forward became romantic relationship litmus tests. Some of the girlfriends (later wives) in my social circle are biatches. Additionally, there were 2 intense male battles for certain girlfriends in the circle, creating some messy dynamics within the group. The presence of the girlfriends irked me. They didn't need to be there. They could have done some girly thing that day, like having a girly get together where they talked fashion or something else.
Having a Super Bowl party become a romantic relationship litmus test seems rather unpleasant. I stopped going to our social circle's Super Bowl parties and eventually the circle stopped having them. The Patriots-Rams Super Bowl (53) in 2019 was the last one the social circle had due to relocations and people somewhat self-isolating, not due to pandemic, but due to become more self-absorbed in the trappings of bougie suburban life (single family houses, dogs, etc). I didn't even watch the most recent Super Bowl (56). It was so good not to watch a Super Bowl and not be a normie sports bro. I don't expect to watch Super Bowl 57 in February 2023.
go ahead and watch sports and pick your team, but don't let it emotionally control you like most guys I see. Yes, they might be around girls more or have a cute wife, but are we just looking at this through rose colored lens? Are they really having a great time lol?
No, most normie sports bros are not having a great time. The married ones and the guys in LTRs might look like they are having a good time, but they are not. Most men in LTRs longer than about 2-3 years are seeing diminished sexual frequency. This is because women, without the restraint of religion and other cultural forces, are designed to be short term monogamous. They are not designed to be long term monogamous. The more beta-ish males can do ok managing a woman for 2-3 years. Guys with really strong frames might get 5 good years out of longer term relationships. Both married and non-married guys with relationships longer than 5 years are experiencing less than optimal relational conditions. Women get bored and aren't sexually desiring their men anymore. So if you're out and meet a normie (likely a normie sports bro) and he's been in the same relationship for 2-3+ years, his relationship likely stinks despite what the external appearances are, both in the real world and on social media.
The unattached and marginally attached normie sports bros are pissed that they aren't getting laid regularly enough. They are trying to feel better about themselves by drinking alcohol, simping for e-thots on Instagram/OnlyFans, and simping for athlete males and athletic team owners by watching college and pro sports.
One of the more frustrating experiences I've had was trying to do approaches at alumni game watching events for my undergrad alma mater. I found that at these game watching events, female alums were not able to concentrate long enough to have a meaningful conversation that would lead to a date/number exchange or same night sex. I stopped going to alumni game watching events and then only went to alumni events not centered around sports watching. In theory, alumni events are supposed to be easy pickings for finding dates. They can be if you go to the right alumni events. I'd rather do approaches at non-sports watching alumni events than do stranger approaches in any bar or any non-bar venue. I'm way more likely to get a date/number exchange at an alumni event. The problem is that there are so few alumni events now. Even before the pandemic, there were maybe 1-3 non-sports watching alumni events per year for my undergrad alma mater's local chapter. I haven't been to an alumni event since prior to the pandemic. I just looked my undergrad alumni local chapter's Facebook page and there have only been 2 non-sports events this year. I didn't attend either of them and it's good that I didn't because they were poorly attended with no attractive women.
