Been losing interest in all sports for a couple decades. And now haven’t little interest left. Watch PSU football and some of their other sports at times. Probably watched less than a dozen other college games, including bowls.
Same for pro sports. Watch Steelers and laugh when they blow games. Very few other games.
The entire system is terrible. Every year you need to buy a program to know who is on any team. And most players are self centered ego maniacs only worried about social media clicks.
The announcers are attention whores. Screaming and carrying on. Crowd noise is insane even at stadiums that are half empty. Commercial breaks longer than game action.
Officiating is poor and inconsistent. Too many games screwed up by bad calls.
And now gambling is King. Massive amounts of advertising. Half the pregame is about betting lines, side bets, instant odds during the games….. never stops.
Until I shut off the tube and go outside……
That about covers it, Spin, though some of the things you mentioned don't bother me as much.
Back in the day, I followed all the major sports. As a kid, I could practically recite the starting lineups of all the baseball teams. The All-Star game was a big deal. Later in life, I left early from work to catch the first round of March Madness. (As a government employee, I could do stuff like that.) NFL...NBA...boxing...same thing. NHL...not so much except when the Soviets toured.
Now the only sport I follow closely is college football. Even that's lost a lot of its charm with the bowl games being devalued and team rosters now subject to free agency. I get why in fairness to the players that's happened, but as a fan, it dilutes my interest. Still, I look forward with eagerness to the season starting and remain a big-time fan of Penn State. The product of a lifetime of conditioning.
What tipped over the applecart for me was the blatant politicization of professional sports a few years ago and having my intelligence insulted by pompous lectures on social values by airheaded athletes, owners, league executives, media commentators...the whole crowd. Sports should be a refuge from politics, but increasingly there is no refuge...anywhere. It's the times we live in.
Anyway, my interest had been gradually decreasing for a number of years as life got busier and busier while the musical-chair rosters made it harder to follow the teams, as per your comment above. So when the politics came rushing in, I said, OK, I'm out. Now, ironically, I know the history of the games very well and remain interested in that part of it but couldn't tell you who played in the World Series last year or who's still alive in the NBA playoffs now. NFL, I catch an occasional game on television and pay a little more attention during the playoffs, but that's it.
