Why is this? Why so happy or frustrated when others win or lose?

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Why do you get happy when your favourite sports team win even if you were not in the team yourself?
 
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Because it’s fun to root for a team and celebrate with your friends when the team wins and complain or commiserate when the team loses.

It’s also something that people can do as a family, across all age groups and genders. Many people who support teams have a little interest in the sport, but a lot more interest in enjoying a game with their parents, kids, grandparents and friends. Obviously a 15-year-old might not have a lot of interests in common with her dad and grandpa, but they can all bond over their favorite team. When she grows up she’ll carry those happy memories into adulthood and be rooting for the team with her own spouse and kids.

It’s really not hard to figure out if you know anybody who’s a sports fan.

What do YOU do for fun with your relatives and friends?
 
Tis_Bearself said:
Many people who support teams have a little interest in the sport,
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I just don’t understand why so many peoole watch football but never play it themselves.
I mean, I understand why people watch some games in a sport they dont play but…when I played darts in a team I followed darts on tv. I wasn’t just watching world cup and world championship. People who focus very much on a sport should at least play it.
 
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jesusmademe said:
I just don’t understand why so many peoole watch football but never play it themselves.
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Most people have played football at some point in their lives. That doesn’t mean it was organized or professional games though. Also, unless its Flag Football, not everyone is built to handle a contact sport.
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People who focus very much on a sport should at least play it.
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It’s called entertainment… I watch and read about a plethora of things that I’ll probably never personally do. You probably do too.
 
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Cruciferi said:
built to handle a contact sport.
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Is football really a contact sport? They are not alowed to tackle eachother. It is nothing like ice-hockey. Sure they might touch eachother but thry just lie down and cry like babies then. That is tye football stwreotyoe.
 
It’s not practical for a lot of us who have physical limitations to be playing sports. Some sports we could play in school or as kids but not as adults, others of us were not athletic and/or not physically suited for the sport in question. That doesn’t mean we can’t enjoy watching it and appreciate the artistry of a well-executed play. When I see somebody making an awesome catch or hitting a ball out of the stadium, I don’t need to play myself to go “Wow!”

By your reasoning, we can’t enjoy the Olympics either unless we’ve played the sport…we can’t appreciate the artistry of figure skaters if we don’t skate, we can’t marvel at Simone Biles flying through the air if we haven’t done gymnastics, we can’t be happy our country’s team won a track race if we don’t run. Carried a step further, we also wouldn’t be able to enjoy the ballet if we didn’t dance, or Cirque du Soleil if we didn’t do tumbling or aerialist stunts.

It might be better if you just accept that people enjoy what they enjoy and they don’t do it according to your “rules”. Your posts show a consistent pattern of seemingly not understanding that other people have different ideas and different preferences from yourself. It’s okay if you don’t share the same preferences, but it’s very normal for people to have those preferences, and they aren’t going to change their preferences to conform to how you think people should behave.
 
I am just curios as to why a person would care if their favourite football or american football team win or loose.
 
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If you say football instead of american football people think you are talking about football.
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Catholic Answers is a US organization, and this is a heavily US forum. A majority of people posting here are from the USA. We have entire threads on “Football” and it is understood that it is AMERICAN Football. We call the other type of sport “Soccer” here.

If this were a primarily European forum, then I could see having to call it “American Football” but that is not the case.
 
What is so special about American football? Why do people watch it? I have tried watching it on tv but it felt weird.
I mean, they just did something for some seconds before stoping the game or whatever it is called. They couldn’t get into the game. It just stoped. In ice-hockey they at least play for a longer time before they stop playing. In darts they play for longer times before stoping it.
I guess I am not into sports in which they only do stuff for some seconds, stop and then do stuff for some secpnds and so on. I guess it is hard to run when people tackle you and you lie on the ground with 10 other guys.
 
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As Cruciferi said, people who watch find it entertaining.

If you don’t like sports or don’t like to watch it, perhaps because it’s not part of your culture/ you didn’t grow up with it, then it’s fine for you to just say, “I don’t like sports” or “I prefer the sports of my own country” and leave it at that. The way your post is worded sounds like it’s criticizing another country’s culture. I’m just pointing this out because you’ve made posts about other cultures before that seemed critical or insensitive, and I’m not sure if you realize that you’re coming off somewhat rude.
 
I am not ctizing American football at all.
I am just trying to understand why people like it.
Trying to ubderstand people is good.
 
Have you considered taking a course in Sociology at your local University? Look into that.
 
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