re: Age or state of sports in general?

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nobody cares about basketball

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This. Does pro basketball EVER end? There is basically NO pro basketball offseason. Please give EVERYONE a BREAK! Both literally and figuratively.

NFL and nba is so freaking bad.

As you get older, if you've made good choices you'll naturally find your interest in people who don't know or care that you exist wanes. You no longer need to derive a sense of self from sports teams because you've successfully established who you are as a person to those around you. You can still have a significant interest in the events, but they become more like social events and a reason to gather with friends and acquaintances.

And, yes, the events themselves have become less about the sport and more about general entertainment. They are less tolerable.

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Becoming a poor product due to all the unnecessary and greedy practices that every person involved is doing.

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The product is actually improving (more parity) and it shows with record tv viewers and attendance is actually up this year

I think the production value has gotten better in all of these sports, but I'm less interested.

I think it's a product of getting older.

I don't turn on Thursday/Sunday/Monday night football at all. I don't check scores. I check the highlights on youtube the next morning drinking coffee.

The games start too late for me. Even 7:00 pm on Saturday is pushing it. It's become a situation where I have to weigh waking up an hour or two later than normal to get 8 hours versus the entertainment value of the game. It better be a really good game.

For example, Auburn/Texas A&M went into 4OT last Saturday. I turned it off at the end of regulation. I wanted to watch, but not at the expense of sleep. Caught the highlights the next morning. My reaction was "thank god I didn't try to finish the game last night."

Priorities shift as you get older, especially when you take into account you're watching kids (Ryan Williams for Bama is literally 17 years old) and men you're older than in the NFL. I'm 32. Most of the guys still in the league are veterans. I enjoy the game of football, but I'd be lying if I haven't had to fight to keep the passion of watching the sport when there are so many other things that interest me out there.

At a certain point you have to realize you're watching dudes throw around a ball, understand that there is no value other than entertainment, and then be okay with spending some of the little time you have on this earth watching it. I recommend everyone do that, because it also leads to less frustration watching Florida skull drag your team.

I’ve watched about 25 minutes of college football that isn’t lsu. And in the lsu games never more than 2-3 quarters. It just isn’t entertaining to me anymore.

College football is all I have a passion for and the time to invest in.

All the others fell by the wayside as I got older. The transfer portal and NIL feel like I might give up on college football too if things don’t settle down

Still watch a lot of CFB games, but don’t pay attention to talk shows, game day, etc. I am starting to not pay attention to recruiting. I watch LSU basketball and baseball. A little bit of the NFL, no NBA and only the World Series in baseball.

I do enjoy high school football and basketball.

As you get older, you narrow what matters.

The only things I really care about watching is LSU football/baseball and the Saints.

The rest really doesn’t matter.

I’ll watch the Pelicans if I’m home and they’re on, but don’t care if I miss it. I won’t watch the rest of the NBA. If the Pels moved, I’d be 100% out on the NBA.

I haven’t watched a college basketball game in years (including LSU) and can’t stand it.

I’m done with MLB forever. They have been destroyed by wokeness. I wont even watch the ASG or World Series. frick MLB forever.

I’ll still watch non-Saints and non-LSU football games, but it’s no biggie if I miss them.

Watch the NHL, where real men play
82 games no load management
Best playoffs in sports