It's just cars driving around in circles for hours.
I never got watching professional sports. It's boring. Nothing ever changes (always the same rules, people, teams, etc) and it's just a medium for ads.
When you've grown up with the sheer variety that video games have to offer it seems so simplistic and bland.
As someone who was pretty interested in sports I think for me it started as something to do, particularly outside of the house with friends. When I started gaining interest I was a young 20-something in a new place by myself. Choices I had to not be a friendless homebound hermit come to bars/clubs and sports mainly. You can find things like nerdy groups, but I tried that a couple times too and in my experience I didn't really like any of those people (too much left lean).
There's also a lot of obsession there. I'm not into that level of obsession over things whether it be MtG or a sports team. So I ended up with some friends I liked going to games with. I tried playing some sports a bit too, and I did for a bit but the combination of years of being the worst player on the team and getting older and injured sort of did that in.
I've lost a lot of interest since 2020, but I'll still go to a game here and there for the same reasons. Even at the height of my interest though, I didn't watch much on TV but would just look at scores and stats after the fact.
It's just cars driving around in circles for hours.
I never got watching professional sports. It's boring. Nothing ever changes (always the same rules, people, teams, etc) and it's just a medium for ads.
When you've grown up with the sheer variety that video games have to offer it seems so simplistic and bland.
Watching sports = Boring Playing sports = Great
EmpLemon has a great video on NASCAR and worth a watch, but the main draw is/was (as morbid as it sounds) the potential for death.
I guess people need their kicks now that Liveleak is gone.
Love me some EmpLemon
As someone who was pretty interested in sports I think for me it started as something to do, particularly outside of the house with friends. When I started gaining interest I was a young 20-something in a new place by myself. Choices I had to not be a friendless homebound hermit come to bars/clubs and sports mainly. You can find things like nerdy groups, but I tried that a couple times too and in my experience I didn't really like any of those people (too much left lean). There's also a lot of obsession there. I'm not into that level of obsession over things whether it be MtG or a sports team. So I ended up with some friends I liked going to games with. I tried playing some sports a bit too, and I did for a bit but the combination of years of being the worst player on the team and getting older and injured sort of did that in.
I've lost a lot of interest since 2020, but I'll still go to a game here and there for the same reasons. Even at the height of my interest though, I didn't watch much on TV but would just look at scores and stats after the fact.
First few laps, first 3 corners in particular, to see some crashes
I'll go to a few minor league baseball games a year but that's about the extent of my sports fandom.
Never understood the attraction of watching people turn left for hours at a time.