~ whilst laying on the roof this weekend, we could hear dipshits screaming and hollering every time a football or baseball team whose game was being televised scored a point. we have always had a knee jerk aversion to anything related to organized sports: sports team jerseys, sports television networks, sports bars, sports fans, and pretty much surrounding sports, exlcuding the sport itself. we always presumed this stemmed from growing up too fat and slow to play sports, being too unpopular to be picked for a team, and adherence to the typical jock vs nerd\/punk schema.<\/p>\n
however, finding ourselves seated to a middle-aged man and his 6-year-old son at a cafe this morning, a one-sided conversation clarified for us the source of the mindless nature of sports fans. this child was not even old enough to play football, baseball, and certainly not hockey, yet his father was asking him which sports team was his favorite and to explain his choide; the kid doesn’t even understand what the sports are about, yet he is already being taught to take sides over something ridiculous. this sort of indoctrination is as offensive to us as the act of sending children to sunday school or forcing a carnivourous diets upon them. imagine if our fathers had forced us to listen to deep purple or the eagles – or to shout with glee every time brad pitt signed a new contract; that is how absurd it is cheer when someone who isn’t you makes a touchdown.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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