The biggest losers? Sports fanatics or Sci-fi fanboys

[MessiahDecoy123]

Sport fanatics obsess over games and try to identify with the players fame and fortune and skill. Sci-fi fanboys dress up in ridiculous costumes and try to identify with fictional characters.

Who are the biggest losers?

 

[Paroxysm]

this thread.

 

[C. Lee]

The people that try to start fights between the two.

 

[Majic Walrus]

Could you add an option for both?

 

[Spider-Vader]

Anime fanboys.

 

[MessiahDecoy123]

Sports fanatics have the idol worship thing which is pretty sad.

 

[Ace of Knaves]

Yea but they "worship" real people who do REAL things and who have done REAL achievements. Not fictional characters that don't really exist.

I don't worship any sport star. But I look up to guys like Bobby Moore, Bobby Charlton, Geoff Hurst, Pele etc because they have done great things. Like winning the World Cup for instance. Or Paulo Di Canio and Gianfranco Zola because they were just brilliant at what they did.

People who worship ****ing Captain Kirk or Luke Skywalker need a slap.

 

[MessiahDecoy123]

this thread.

Must be a patriots fan.

 

[MessiahDecoy123]

Yea but they "worship" real people who do REAL things and who have done REAL achievements. Not fictional characters that don't really exist.

I don't worship any sport star. But I look up to guys like Bobby Moore, Bobby Charlton, Geoff Hurst, Pele etc because they have done great things.

People who worship ****ing Captain Kirk or Luke Skywalker need a slap.

But do Batman fans really worship Batman or are they simply in love with the concept?

It's worse hen you want to wear a man's skin because he's nifty with a 10 ounce ball.

 

[Ace of Knaves]

Well yea there are extremes in whatever.

But I look at it this way.

What's sadder?

Idolising and respecting someone like Muhammid Ali?

Or idolising and worshiping Captain ****ing Kirk?

It's all cool to love and be passionate about fictional characters. But they are fictional characters. They haven't achieved anything. They haven't won World Cups or heavyweight boxing titles, inspired entire nations etc etc.

 

[Majic Walrus]

And I look at it this way:

It's all cool to love and be passionate about sports stars, but at the end of the day they're just athletes playing games.

Both arguments are valid.

 

[Ace of Knaves]

Yea but they can effect whole nations.

America wouldn't really know about it coz their main sports are exclusive to America. (not intending to be snide or anything here)

But in sports like football, rugby, **** like that? They have tournaments for ALL countries in the world.

Say American Football was played globally, and there was a big tournament involving all countries against each other. You telling me your country wouldn't be cheering them on? You telling me whether they are successful or not wouldn't effect the whole country?

The same can't be said for fictional characters.

 

[Majic Walrus]

But not being much of a sports fan, I wouldn't cheer them on because I really don't care. Point of fact: Sports or Sci-Fi, either are equally as worthless and equally as worthy. It's all in whoever is getting the question asked.

 

[ChickenScratch]

This thread!

Seriously, I'm a sports fan and athlete and never got the whole geek hate for sports in general. Geek culture is subjective, based upon tastes while sport culture is objective based upon achievement and actual performance. There's room for both, I don't see the problem.

 

[Aesop Rocks]

I don''t ever recall a dad pressuring his son to be the star Sci-Fi nerd at any conventions or anything because he couldn't be in high school.

Where as sports on the other hand...

 

[Ace of Knaves]

But not being much of a sports fan, I wouldn't cheer them on because I really don't care. Point of fact: Sports or Sci-Fi, either are equally as worthless and equally as worthy. It's all in whoever is getting the question asked.

Fair enough. But if America were about to win the World Cup would you really not give a toss about it, like, at all?

In most cases (not saying you BTW) I reckon people who don't care for sport don't care for sport because they are **** at it.

 

[Majic Walrus]

It's possible. I mean I don't give a **** about sports, I was never good at them in high school and while I like watching hockey and even baseball sometimes I don't consider myself a fan.

If the US were about to win the World Cup I would probably not eve know that we were playing.

 

[Aesop Rocks]

I don't care for sports like, at all.

But then again I'm not obsessed with Star Wars or anything.

I'm a middle man.

That hates sports.

 

[FaT_tONle]

Fans of professional sports and professional athletes and leagues is just another form of entertainment and escapism. Its no better than watching a TV show, being into movies, video games, whatever. Neither is productive. If you want to knock sports or sci-fi geeks knock everything else it is you do for entertainment and escapism that contributes zilch to society. Hell, you'd be a loser for posting on a movie board if that's the case. Especially one devoted to comics/superheros.

 

[Ugfugly]

I don't care for sports at all however at least sports are actually human achievements. I do think sports stars are worth some of the hero worship they get but fanaticism on both, in the extreme, are kind of sad

 

[Ace of Knaves]

Contributes zilch to society? Try telling that to the Brasilian people when they won the World Cup.

And Muahammid Ali winning the Heavyweight Championship after all the **** he went through for refusing to go to Nam and all that really meant nothing to society...

Not.

 

[Aesop Rocks]

at least sports are actually human achievements

And making movies, making sets, props, creating comic books, graphic novels, merch....isn't?

 

[Ace of Knaves]

And making movies, making sets, props, creating comic books, graphic novels, merch....isn't?

Being a fictional character isn't...because they are fictional.

 

[FaT_tONle]

Contributes zilch to society? Try telling that to the Brasilian people when they won the World Cup.

And Muahammid Ali winning the Heavyweight Championship after all the **** he went through for refusing to go to Nam and all that really meant nothing to society...

Not.

World cup (country pride), racial barriers, contributions to society by athletes all transcend sports. That's obvious. I am just talking about the game itself. It's entertainment. Just like it has been since the Olympics in ancient Greece and on to the present.

 

[Aesop Rocks]

Being a fictional character isn't...because they are fictional.

No, the people that make that happen, the actors, directors, everyone that makes the film or whatever.