Yes, I do mind. I watch football, American football, baseball and basketball and I think there is something broken about football leagues & tournaments that’s hard to ignore. I don’t think the loyal-fan-for-good-or-for-worse argument that’s supposed to make up for lack of excitement in football is valid: I am a Denver Broncos and Nuggets fan, there were plenty of bad times for both teams, you need that there as well. But it’s still nice to be able to realistically hope for a change of the situation. To abandon that hope and become ritualistic is a 19th century European survival strategy - the people who did not adopt it had a high probability to emigrate to the USA. So I guess we’re much more inclined to suffer.
Yes, I do mind. I watch football, American football, baseball and basketball and I think there is something broken about football leagues & tournaments that’s hard to ignore. I don’t think the loyal-fan-for-good-or-for-worse argument that’s supposed to make up for lack of excitement in football is valid: I am a Denver Broncos and Nuggets fan, there were plenty of bad times for both teams, you need that there as well. But it’s still nice to be able to realistically hope for a change of the situation. To abandon that hope and become ritualistic is a 19th century European survival strategy - the people who did not adopt it had a high probability to emigrate to the USA. So I guess we’re much more inclined to suffer.