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re: The Triviality of Watching Sports on Television
Posted on 9/10/25 at 3:20 am to Three
Posted on 9/10/25 at 3:20 am to Three
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I watched a solid 6 hours of college football
So you watched 1 game?
I quit watching college. Too many commercial breaks, reviews, etc. Super long broadcast. Mostly tho because they went away from the BCS model which got things right 90% of the time. Now the regular season is meaningless, conference championship games are meaningless (hurt more than help), and with the portal…recruiting has become meaningless.
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Posted on 9/10/25 at 4:22 am to Three
I'm with you. I don't focus so much on college football as I did 15-20 years ago. I follow baseball a little more now
Posted on 9/10/25 at 4:40 am to Three
I haven’t watched ESPN talk shows on TV in a long time although listen to John & Lance on radio most mornings and it’s an ESPN affiliate so I suppose the same thing,
I prefer the dry humor and no yelling so early in the morning.
I prefer the dry humor and no yelling so early in the morning.
Posted on 9/10/25 at 5:08 am to eitek1
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I don’t watch sports and never really have. I participated in my youth, but don’t have much interest watching as an adult.
Just curious…how did you stumble into this site? I just assumed the common thread was some amount of enjoyment of sport
Posted on 9/10/25 at 5:20 am to Three
I'll watch to an extent.
But I'm still getting up on Saturday mornings, going workout, run errands if there are any to do, and clean up around the house before I sit and watch football for the rest of the day
But I'm still getting up on Saturday mornings, going workout, run errands if there are any to do, and clean up around the house before I sit and watch football for the rest of the day
Posted on 9/10/25 at 6:01 am to Three
I don't watch any of the TV talk shows any longer. Waste of time.
I do listen to a lot of college football podcasts, both local and national.
I can do that while going about my daily routine - running, yard work, gym, driving around in my truck, etc.
I do listen to a lot of college football podcasts, both local and national.
I can do that while going about my daily routine - running, yard work, gym, driving around in my truck, etc.
Posted on 9/10/25 at 6:02 am to Three
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I'm just wondering if anyone else has suddenly started to find sports to be trivial and perhaps started watching less as a result.
As a Kentucky football fan Yes!
But seriously, I think generally as you get older your priorities in life shift. I still love watching sports, but it's not nearly as important to me now as it was when I was younger, a season ticket holder, etc.
NIL has also lessened my interest, the constant transfer portal, etc.
This post was edited on 9/10/25 at 6:09 am
Posted on 9/10/25 at 6:14 am to Three
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I'm just wondering if anyone else has suddenly started to find sports to be trivial and perhaps started watching less as a result.
Yeah I've been like that for about a decade now. I still watch college ball all day on Saturdays if nothing is going on but I'm not skipping out on hunting, fishing, weddings, spending time with family, etc to watch a game. My lifestyle and hobbies are very fulfilling so I don't give a sh*t if LSU wins or loses. I'm fine without it. I'm not one of those LA trailer park bama fans who needs their team to win in order to have something feel right in their life.
Posted on 9/10/25 at 7:00 am to Three
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I'm just wondering if anyone else has suddenly started to find sports to be trivial and perhaps started watching less as a result.
I watch far less sports than I used to. FAR less. One thing Covid did was sort of ruin sports for me. When we didn't have any to watch I guess I subconsciously realized that it's not as important to me as it used to be. Nowadays, I'll watch LSU/Saints stuff and that's about it, and if I happen to miss a game, then oh well. On Sundays I don't have NFL football on all day anymore. Same with Saturdays. And if we lose it doesn't really affect me anymore either. It used to ruin my weekend and now I'm over it basically as soon as the game is over. And I don't remember the last time I watched SportsCenter or one of the talking head shows.
It's definitely weird and it sucks, and I wish I cared more, but I just sort of don't.
Posted on 9/10/25 at 7:18 am to Three
As I’ve gotten older I certainly care less about results and don’t let them bother me. I think that’s pretty normal though as you realize there are more important things in life to worry about. I still enjoy watching for the entertainment value though.
This post was edited on 9/10/25 at 7:20 am
Posted on 9/10/25 at 7:29 am to Three
quote:The funny thing is, politics is just as trivial as sports and the fact that it’s debated so passionately is equally as pointless. It’s all just forms of entertainment. If you don’t like it, turn the channel.
For some reason, it was very strange to see the panelists talking about sports so passionately at 7am in the morning - it was the same intensity you see in news programs when guests are debating politics
Posted on 9/10/25 at 7:39 am to Three
This happens as you age, often when you have kids. Their schedules consume your weekend time. I don’t give a frick about sports anymore, watch on TV maybe 30% of the time and have been to like 3 games in 10 years— and I’ve traveled coast to coast to see the Iowa Hawkeyes play in some of America’s greatest venues.
Posted on 9/10/25 at 7:41 am to Three
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at 7am in the morning
As opposed to 7am in the evening
Posted on 9/10/25 at 7:53 am to Three
I used to go hard on football, Sunday ticket all day, prepped way too much for fantasy, multi-day NFL draft party every year, etc. It would completely ruin my week if my teams didn’t all do well. I realized it was a bunch of kids younger than me running around on grass with a ball. Life has taken over.
Those were good times but my priorities just shifted significantly.
Those were good times but my priorities just shifted significantly.
Posted on 9/10/25 at 7:57 am to Three
Yes. I have gone from rabid sports fan to barely paying attention in just a short couple years.
Much of it is due to the changes in college sports, such as transfer portal and NIL which have ruined the game for me. But then all the political BS that infiltrated sports played a role.
It just no longer was fun. I am still a casual viewer and I kept my LSU season tickets because my kids use them, but I have gone from attending most home games and an occasional away game, to perhaps one home game per year.
And I went from watching podcasts, talk shows, etc., every day, to watching zero. I have no idea what's going on in the sports world.
Much of it is due to the changes in college sports, such as transfer portal and NIL which have ruined the game for me. But then all the political BS that infiltrated sports played a role.
It just no longer was fun. I am still a casual viewer and I kept my LSU season tickets because my kids use them, but I have gone from attending most home games and an occasional away game, to perhaps one home game per year.
And I went from watching podcasts, talk shows, etc., every day, to watching zero. I have no idea what's going on in the sports world.
Posted on 9/10/25 at 8:00 am to Three
I try to keep up with LSU sports and enjoy college SEC football and top 10 matchups and the playoffs. When the NFL players started kneeling down during the national anthem, I stopped watching the NFL. When commentators like Ryan Clark and Steven Smith spew lies and stir their racial gumbo disguised as sportstalk, I tuned out. I don't want sports openly supporting lgbtqrst or woke BS. I found a really great alternative sport to watch on youtube. It is called bikini fishing. 
Posted on 9/10/25 at 8:01 am to Three
I’m into lsu football/college football as much as ever, if not more, but I don’t pay much attention to anything else. Used to follow/know a lot of the nfl and nba.
Posted on 9/10/25 at 8:19 am to Three
Of course watching sports is trivial. Doesn’t mean I’m going to stop watching. I’m also not going to start watching the news.
Posted on 9/10/25 at 8:24 am to StansberryRules
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When I was a kid I took the W's and L's really hard like it was super important, earth shattering stuff.
When you get older, have a house, kids, job, bills to pay, cholesterol levels to check, shite like that, you realize how utterly trivial and silly sports is.
No matter how old you are if you don’t take your team’s biggest game like that you don’t have a pulse
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The funny thing is, politics is just as trivial as sports
Something only affluent white people can say…
This post was edited on 9/10/25 at 8:27 am
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