re: Are middle aged die hard sports fans a dying breed?

Also 39 and I’m the same. I used to watch anything and everything but now if my teams aren’t playing, I’m not watching.

Haven’t done fantasy in years and I don’t get into sports betting either.

It’s just called getting older. I use to be able to name every stat for football and baseball players. I remember being in my teens talking to grownups who said they could name every starting lineup and all that stuff but as you get older, other things take priority

I’m not middle aged, but for me the answer is yes. 2018 killed my passion for the nfl. Then 2020 happened. Sports were taken away abruptly and I realized just how much time and money I was wasting consuming sports. Now cfb is barely recognizable and it takes actual effort to get worked up over a game.

I also admit that getting older and having a family and other interests have probably played a part but all of the above definitely accelerated my growing disinterest.

I watch more baseball than anything else, I always have but I can say my interest in sports as a whole gas dwindled.

I haven't watched an NBA game in probably 15 years
I'll watch the occasional CBB LSU game, especially in the tournament but nothing else.

NFL it has become rare for me to sit and watch all Sunday. I'll turn a game on but usually doing other stuff and not 100% focused. Same with CFB, even LSU I've lost interest in, I'll watch but not stuck to the TV anymore.

I don’t watch any MLB, not even the World Series. I skip the NFL most of the time but will catch the playoffs. College football - I do plan my day around. The golf majors are off the chain. I can get into NBA, though I rarely tune in. Honestly, professional sports are boring as frick

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I still live and die with my teams.

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that’s a lot of livin and dyin

I just turned 50 and am still relatively passionate about most sports I grew up crazy about, but I think another factor has been the changing in technologies and the removal of the "scarcity" of opportunity to watch sports.

In order for me to watch the Braves, Thursday night football, whatever games other outlets buy, I need a myriad of options and the energy to hunt them down. I also cant toggle back and forth easily in most cases.

Also, while I love fall and am thankful for the opportunity to watch a ton of football, more than I ever could have imagined as a kid, the fact that there are so many options naturally will force you to make decisions. Especially if your team is not playing. The idea of me missing a broadcast NFL game in my 20s was ludicrous if I was not super busy. Now, if it is two subpar teams playing on MNF, I dont mind going to bed at halftime, I will scratch the itch again on Thursday, and if not then, Saturday, etc.

All the teams I root for are lousy so my interest in sports might be the lowest it's ever been. Plus all the woke bullshite the NFL did killed most of my interest in that league. College football is mercenary craziness and big conference thievery. It's all mostly garbage today.

I need to feel more of a connection to a team than "they sell this team logo stuff at Wal-Mart and people around here buy it."

That's tough in the NFL, but New Orleans used to be a place where it worked. The magic slowly went away. Along the way, we had Alvin Kamara beating up a fan and Drew Brees revealing himself first as an idiot and then as a wimp.

I went to USM in the 1990s and I followed their teams for a long time. The magic is definitely gone there now, thanks to ESPN.

It can't just be money and bragging. There has to be some magic there. It's mostly gone, though a lot of people are kind of stuck playing pretend because they don't have anything else.