My favorite part about professional sports is how people are assigned a corporation at birth to be fans of. You’re born in Kansas, you are expected root for Kansas City Chiefs incorporated.
Enjoy what you want, I don’t care. I just think being a long term fan of a team is weird loyalty to a corporate entity.
Enjoy what you want, I don’t care. I just think being a long term fan of a team is weird loyalty to a corporate entity.
Is it really weird that I watch sports with dad because it makes us both happy to spend time together watching something we both enjoy? Is it weird that I attend an event with friends from my community? Is it weird that we all attend the sporting event we have the largest common interest in and that is closest to our location? Is it weird that we have developed a fondness to watching that team develop, change, or suceed?
No, you are not assigned a corporation at birth. You can choose whatever team or even player you want to follow. If a team plays out of a city you are near it’s common to follow them. This is no different than the leagues they have in China. Those leagues are incorporated too btw. I’m not defending capitalism. This is how you run operate massive endeavors like national teams or regional teams that are part of national leagues. It’s funny to hear talk of coporate bootlicking when everything is infected by corporations in the US. Sports is no different than video games, tv, or music.
You don’t appear to have any expertise here, proceed to comment, and then claim you don’t care. Then why comment? Why shit on something that makes people happy? If you don’t care then why are you being hostile?
You are the one being hostile. You’re going way overboard reading into what I wrote and getting defensive.
My point was that people are sometimes fans of the team more than the players. People will love a particular quarterback until the second they leave the team, then they hate them. It’s literally loyalty to the team over the player.
Not necessarily, if you’re born in the far western part of Kansas it’s perfectly acceptable to be beholden to the broncos instead I guess :^).
Warning: be prepared to get more details than you ever wanted to hear about Kansas City.
The smaller part of Kansas city, the Kansas side, is at the very eastern edge of the state. Toward central Kansas it’s more expected to root for the college football teams, since no one lives in Kansas hardly and they don’t have any NFL teams.
Majority of the population of Kansas City resides in Missouri and the chiefs are based there. Approximately 4x the residents are in Missouri vs Kansas, going by the designated city limits alone and not counting the vast urban sprawl to the east in Missouri.
With the St Louis Rams moving to California in recent years, it’s far more accurate to say that if you are born in Missouri, you are beholden to the corporation of the Kansas City chiefs!
My favorite part about professional sports is how people are assigned a corporation at birth to be fans of. You’re born in Kansas, you are expected root for Kansas City Chiefs incorporated.
Enjoy what you want, I don’t care. I just think being a long term fan of a team is weird loyalty to a corporate entity.
Is it really weird that I watch sports with dad because it makes us both happy to spend time together watching something we both enjoy? Is it weird that I attend an event with friends from my community? Is it weird that we all attend the sporting event we have the largest common interest in and that is closest to our location? Is it weird that we have developed a fondness to watching that team develop, change, or suceed? No, you are not assigned a corporation at birth. You can choose whatever team or even player you want to follow. If a team plays out of a city you are near it’s common to follow them. This is no different than the leagues they have in China. Those leagues are incorporated too btw. I’m not defending capitalism. This is how you run operate massive endeavors like national teams or regional teams that are part of national leagues. It’s funny to hear talk of coporate bootlicking when everything is infected by corporations in the US. Sports is no different than video games, tv, or music. You don’t appear to have any expertise here, proceed to comment, and then claim you don’t care. Then why comment? Why shit on something that makes people happy? If you don’t care then why are you being hostile?
How am I being hostile? I was just making a point about people being a fan of teams vs players. Your comment is assuming a ton of things I didn’t say
Don’t hide from the implications of your statement. You implied a bootlicker loyalty to a coporation.
You are the one being hostile. You’re going way overboard reading into what I wrote and getting defensive.
My point was that people are sometimes fans of the team more than the players. People will love a particular quarterback until the second they leave the team, then they hate them. It’s literally loyalty to the team over the player.
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Not necessarily, if you’re born in the far western part of Kansas it’s perfectly acceptable to be beholden to the broncos instead I guess :^).
Warning: be prepared to get more details than you ever wanted to hear about Kansas City.
The smaller part of Kansas city, the Kansas side, is at the very eastern edge of the state. Toward central Kansas it’s more expected to root for the college football teams, since no one lives in Kansas hardly and they don’t have any NFL teams.
Majority of the population of Kansas City resides in Missouri and the chiefs are based there. Approximately 4x the residents are in Missouri vs Kansas, going by the designated city limits alone and not counting the vast urban sprawl to the east in Missouri.
With the St Louis Rams moving to California in recent years, it’s far more accurate to say that if you are born in Missouri, you are beholden to the corporation of the Kansas City chiefs!
I only do this because I’m sick of people asking me what Kansas is like when I tell them I grew up in KC.