Arguing about sports

[RedSmithClone]

Yeah I have noticed more and more that all family and friends want to do is talk sports with me at cookouts or parties. And by talk I mean sound like WEEI's Big Show - yelling back and forth and over each other about the stupidest things. I just walk away or say I don't want to talk about work right now it's my weekend. It normally pisses them off, but oh well.

 

[Cadet]

What I hate are the people who automatically dismiss arguing sports with me because I'm a chick.

One night my dad and uncle are trying to recall a baseball player's name. First they call my older guy cousin, the accountant. Then they call my younger guy cousin, the lawyer. Then they call my brother, the lawyer.

Finally the fourth call they make is to the SPORTS EDITOR in the family, and I answered the damn question before they finished asking it.

 

[Lieslntx]

What I hate are the people who automatically dismiss arguing sports with me because I'm a chick.

What she said

 

[ArnoldBabar]

When we lost to Marshall in 2003, I **** you not it was less than five seconds after the game was officially over and the phone was ringing. I basically screamed for the entire house to hear, "DO NOT PICK UP THE PHONE!" because I knew who it was.

I have a rule: Anyone who calls me within half an hour after one of the teams I care about loses a crucial/heartbreaking game is not my friend anymore. If you don't know well enough to leave somebody the **** alone in that situation ...

Sounds like you get a little to involved if you're bothered by a silly phone call after your team loses. Either that, or you follow ****ty teams.

In that situation, it's not even about sports. It's about having friends who are so tin-eared they actually think they need to call you 30 seconds later and say, "Wow, could you believe that? They blew a 10-point lead in the last three minutes!" Like you want to talk about it at that moment.

 

[JackReacher]

When we lost to Marshall in 2003, I **** you not it was less than five seconds after the game was officially over and the phone was ringing. I basically screamed for the entire house to hear, "DO NOT PICK UP THE PHONE!" because I knew who it was.

I have a rule: Anyone who calls me within half an hour after one of the teams I care about loses a crucial/heartbreaking game is not my friend anymore. If you don't know well enough to leave somebody the **** alone in that situation ...

Sounds like you get a little to involved if you're bothered by a silly phone call after your team loses. Either that, or you follow ****ty teams.

In that situation, it's not even about sports. It's about having friends who are so tin-eared they actually think they need to call you 30 seconds later and say, "Wow, could you believe that? They blew a 10-point lead in the last three minutes!" Like you want to talk about it at that moment.

So when you watch games at home or at a bar and your team loses, do you immediately switch the conversation to best TV shows of the 80s or something to avoid talking about what you just saw?

 

[ScribePharisee]

It seems like my friends and relatives always want to argue about sports. For the most part, they are as ignorant as the folks on message boards.

This is probably why there are very few people in the world I will talk sports with.

I really just can't stand some of the dumb **** my friends say. Does anyone else have this same problem?

Most recently the topics that have gotten me steamed involve college football. I am a big Michigan fan. But I graduated from Michigan State. In a normal week, I get about 10-15 texts, e-mails. voice mails about how much Michigan sucks, how bad Rich Rod is, how Justin Feagin is a coke dealer and jokes about Toledo. When Michigan lost to Appalachian State I got 82 text messages, 82!

I don't really respond. I don't care to. I don't care about who other teams are recruiting or what there players are doing. Still, I get bombarded with messages about every recruit MSU has, how Michigan playing UConn is bad for the program and everything in between. It drives me nuts and I need to vent. I think I'm going to start posting some of these messages below to show everyone how irrational some of these things are.

So does anyone else hate arguing sports, or hate their dumb friends inability to discuss things without bashing other teams?

Okay, rant over.

Would you rather them argue about politics? At least sports doesn't take and waste money out of my pocket like political people do, unless I choose to let them.

 

[ArnoldBabar]

When we lost to Marshall in 2003, I **** you not it was less than five seconds after the game was officially over and the phone was ringing. I basically screamed for the entire house to hear, "DO NOT PICK UP THE PHONE!" because I knew who it was.

I have a rule: Anyone who calls me within half an hour after one of the teams I care about loses a crucial/heartbreaking game is not my friend anymore. If you don't know well enough to leave somebody the **** alone in that situation ...

Sounds like you get a little to involved if you're bothered by a silly phone call after your team loses. Either that, or you follow ****ty teams.

In that situation, it's not even about sports. It's about having friends who are so tin-eared they actually think they need to call you 30 seconds later and say, "Wow, could you believe that? They blew a 10-point lead in the last three minutes!" Like you want to talk about it at that moment.

So when you watch games at home or at a bar and your team loses, do you immediately switch the conversation to best TV shows of the 80s or something to avoid talking about what you just saw?

No, you take a couple minutes to sit there and intermittently exclaim, "****l!" And the last thing you want is some jackass calling up and going, "Dude, did you SEE that?" It means the caller is either a) someone who doesn't know you well enough to know how much the game meant to you and what a ****ty mood you're likely to be in in the immediate aftermath; or b) an asshole trying to rub it in.

 

[JackReacher]

When we lost to Marshall in 2003, I **** you not it was less than five seconds after the game was officially over and the phone was ringing. I basically screamed for the entire house to hear, "DO NOT PICK UP THE PHONE!" because I knew who it was.

I have a rule: Anyone who calls me within half an hour after one of the teams I care about loses a crucial/heartbreaking game is not my friend anymore. If you don't know well enough to leave somebody the **** alone in that situation ...

Sounds like you get a little to involved if you're bothered by a silly phone call after your team loses. Either that, or you follow ****ty teams.

In that situation, it's not even about sports. It's about having friends who are so tin-eared they actually think they need to call you 30 seconds later and say, "Wow, could you believe that? They blew a 10-point lead in the last three minutes!" Like you want to talk about it at that moment.

So when you watch games at home or at a bar and your team loses, do you immediately switch the conversation to best TV shows of the 80s or something to avoid talking about what you just saw?

To make it clear....I'm just giving you a hard time.

Wanna watch the game Saturday.

 

[kingcreole]

I don't mind arguing sports as long as the conversation is logical. What I hate is when the Jayhawks lose, getting emails, phone calls and texts from my non-Jayhawk buddies who like to rub it in. When Kansas lost to K-State in Bramlage for the first time ever, I had two phone calls minutes after the game from K-Staters laughing and saying, "KU sucks! KU sucks!"

I'm sure the same buffoons had already dialed my number and were ready to hit the "talk" button a couple months later, but they probably threw their phones in frustration when Chalmers hit the 3.

 

[Songbird]

When we lost to Marshall in 2003, I **** you not it was less than five seconds after the game was officially over and the phone was ringing. I basically screamed for the entire house to hear, "DO NOT PICK UP THE PHONE!" because I knew who it was.

I have a rule: Anyone who calls me within half an hour after one of the teams I care about loses a crucial/heartbreaking game is not my friend anymore. If you don't know well enough to leave somebody the **** alone in that situation ...

Sounds like you get a little to involved if you're bothered by a silly phone call after your team loses. Either that, or you follow ****ty teams.

In that situation, it's not even about sports. It's about having friends who are so tin-eared they actually think they need to call you 30 seconds later and say, "Wow, could you believe that? They blew a 10-point lead in the last three minutes!" Like you want to talk about it at that moment.

So when you watch games at home or at a bar and your team loses, do you immediately switch the conversation to best TV shows of the 80s or something to avoid talking about what you just saw?

To make it clear....I'm just giving you a hard time.

Wanna watch the game Saturday.

OK, you quoted yourself, which was either intentional, or gross ****ing incompetence, like blowing a lead to East Carolina and losing on a Reverse Beamer Ball.

Which one is it, dude?

 

[JackReacher]

When we lost to Marshall in 2003, I **** you not it was less than five seconds after the game was officially over and the phone was ringing. I basically screamed for the entire house to hear, "DO NOT PICK UP THE PHONE!" because I knew who it was.

I have a rule: Anyone who calls me within half an hour after one of the teams I care about loses a crucial/heartbreaking game is not my friend anymore. If you don't know well enough to leave somebody the **** alone in that situation ...

Sounds like you get a little to involved if you're bothered by a silly phone call after your team loses. Either that, or you follow ****ty teams.

In that situation, it's not even about sports. It's about having friends who are so tin-eared they actually think they need to call you 30 seconds later and say, "Wow, could you believe that? They blew a 10-point lead in the last three minutes!" Like you want to talk about it at that moment.

So when you watch games at home or at a bar and your team loses, do you immediately switch the conversation to best TV shows of the 80s or something to avoid talking about what you just saw?

To make it clear....I'm just giving you a hard time.

Wanna watch the game Saturday.

OK, you quoted yourself, which was either intentional, or gross ****ing incompetence, like blowing a lead to East Carolina and losing on a Reverse Beamer Ball.

Which one is it, dude?

Oh, it was intentional.

 

[Flying Headbutt]

Bull****.

 

[JackReacher]

Bull****.

Wanna start an argument? Huh? Huh?

 

[DanOregon]

One of the things I love about sports is sharing a rooting interest with people I might disagree with about 98 percent of the time. And maybe having opposite views with someone I might agree with 98 percent of the time.
I really enjoy agreeing with people on the sports board that I might disagree with on the politics board - and vice versa.

 

[TrooperBari]

Bull****.

How about a Fresca? Huh? Huh?

 

[Lieslntx]

So when you watch games at home or at a bar and your team loses, do you immediately switch the conversation to best TV shows of the 80s or something to avoid talking about what you just saw?

Why, yes, this is exactly what I do.

 

[imjustagirl]

So when you watch games at home or at a bar and your team loses, do you immediately switch the conversation to best TV shows of the 80s or something to avoid talking about what you just saw?

No. I just curse a lot and pound the bar and wish death on whomever caused the loss. For a good three hours.

 

[Wenders]

I don't mind arguing sports as long as the conversation is logical. What I hate is when the Jayhawks lose, getting emails, phone calls and texts from my non-Jayhawk buddies who like to rub it in. When Kansas lost to K-State in Bramlage for the first time ever, I had two phone calls minutes after the game from K-Staters laughing and saying, "KU sucks! KU sucks!"

Yeah, when this happened (and when we beat them in Allen in 2005), I called my mom and we screamed on the phone for about five minutes, and then I called every other K-State fan I had in my phone book. Usually, I'm more of the celebratory person than the person who likes to rub it in.

My KU friends appreciate that and I've rarely heard anything out of them (aside from the aforementioned person) when they beat us. What goes around comes around and if you're going to be a **** and rub it in, expect to get it back when you're ass is getting killed.

And yes, Sonner, I am a redhead. My family is full of them. It's a good thing we're all K-State fans (with the exception of one branch of cousins that we don't see often) or we would have had some ritual killings already.

 

[YGBFKM]

I find most people stupid and annoying, regardless of the subject.

Feeling's mutual.

<--- means you can't get mad.

On the contrary, that made me laugh.

 

[Piotr Rasputin]

I am a big Michigan fan. But I graduated from Michigan State.

Then why aren't you a big Michigan State fan?

It's not like the Spartans are terrible. Lot to support there. And it's not like you went to some directional school and had to choose the Wolverines to keep college sports interesting.