No Hedgmo, but have you ever cried over your favorite team?

[jeffx]

I've never cried over a sporting event, because I don't get so emotionally caught up in watching other people play sports. I've always thought it was sort of lame to get so emotionally twisted in watching teams play sports that you have no connection with. Its cool to root for a team/player, etc and to get sad or happy over their triumphs and failures, but to cry?

I nearly cried when that ass-wipe John Starks shot the Knicks out of a championship.

 

[Virix]

I've never cried over a sporting event, because I don't get so emotionally caught up in watching other people play sports. I've always thought it was sort of lame to get so emotionally twisted in watching teams play sports that you have no connection with. Its cool to root for a team/player, etc and to get sad or happy over their triumphs and failures, but to cry?

I feel the same way now. The two times I cried over sports I was 8 and 9 years old. When Chris Webber's timeout play happened, I was about 14 and was way past the point of crying over it.

 

[Senser81]

I cried at the stupidity of Chris 'Mayce' Webber on that play.

 

[Dez]

I almost cried after Tony Romo bobbled the snap. I was devestated

 

[Rayman]

Don't think I've cried for such a thing since John Starks went 2/18 in Game 7 in 1994. But then, I was 10. I was irate over the 1994 NFC Championship loss to San Francisco, but I didn't cry. Ditto the 2007 playoff loss to the fuckin' Giants.


:facepalm:

 

[FirstTimer]

Cried when BC beat ND in 1993.

There was a Bears game back around the same time where they lost to the Raiders on a last second FG. I know I was crying after that one.

*Edit* It was the same season. 1993. Bears lost to the Raiders 14-16 on a missed FG by Butler. It was like a week before the BC loss.

 

[NAHSTE]

I've never cried over a sporting event, because I don't get so emotionally caught up in watching other people play sports. I've always thought it was sort of lame to get so emotionally twisted in watching teams play sports that you have no connection with. Its cool to root for a team/player, etc and to get sad or happy over their triumphs and failures, but to cry?

Yeah man I know what you mean. The only reason the 03 NC made me tear up is because I turned to my right after the game and saw my dad, who was a 7-year old kid growing up in Baton Rouge when LSU last won a title in 1958, and how emotionally overwhelmed he truly was. He waited 50 years to see them win another championship. I realized how fortunate I was to see them win, and how rare of an occurrence it really is.

Then we won again 4 years later. Instead of crying, I just got hammered on Bourbon Street, spent way too much on lap dances and (unsuccessfully) tried to get a stripper's number.

 

[Tailback U]

I've never cried over a sporting event, because I don't get so emotionally caught up in watching other people play sports. I've always thought it was sort of lame to get so emotionally twisted in watching teams play sports that you have no connection with. Its cool to root for a team/player, etc and to get sad or happy over their triumphs and failures, but to cry?

I totally agree, but I have gotten emotionally involved with the Sharks.

I started going to games when I was 6 years old with my dad. It was their first season as a NHL franchise. We would drive 45 minutes to the Cow Palace, an arena which holds about 10,000 people, just to watch them play. I'd fall asleep on the way there, during the game, and on the way back. But I went to nearly every game with my dad growing up as a kid.

After 15 years, I'm still going to games with my dad. I've watched the Sharks succeed and fail for every year of my entire life pretty much.

How could I not be emotionally invested in this team? I've spent my entire life watching the organization build itself from the ground up. I've spent money and so much of my time in that arena that it will always be a special place to me.

More than anything, I really respect everything about the organization and franchise. I know some of the players, I've met the coaches and people within the organization and I've had the pleasure of watching some of the players for almost 10 years now.

I want them to win a championship for themselves more than I want them to win it for me. I don't know if it makes sense, but it's not about me, it's more about them that I care about. Guys that bust their asses and play their hearts out year after year, I just want to see them win. They deserve it.

It is everything that is beautiful about sports. It's why we spend so much of our time and energy going to the games, reading about the games, watching highlights, and then getting online to read some more and talk about it some more with others. We are obsessed and we can't get enough of it.

 

[ralaw]

I am the only person in my family that really loves sports, so I don't have any stories of going to games as a kid with my father, and we don't have any local teams that I've ever felt the need to root for, so I'm sure that has something to do with my perspective. I've just never gotten that emotionally invested into any of my favorite sports figures or teams.

As much as a root for the Ravens or Kobe Bryant and the Lakers I never get to the point where I feel I'm part of what they're doing to get emotional over it, because in the back of my mind I can't help but to think they don't give a crap about me rooting for them, so why should I get emotionally caught up in what they're doing? This is where I'm unlike most fans, because I don't care that much. At the end of the day a lot of these athletes and organizations don't care about fans, so why should I take the time to invest my emotions in them? I watch the games because I enjoy the sport, competition and how certain players play the game, but that's it. Don't get me wrong I want the Ravens and the Lakers to win, but if they don't I don't get to the point where I'm really upset about it.

My favorite sports figures are Kobe, Ray Lewis, LeBron James, Tiger Woods and Tom Brady all of whom outside of Brady and to a lesser extent James have had major personal issues off the field. However, because I only enjoy them for their play on the court/field I really don't care about how they are off the field. That's why I've never understood why people stop liking athletes because they come across as being arrogant, selfish, a dickhead, etc....because who cares? Can they play the game? That's all that matters to me.

 

[Tailback U]

Yeah, like I said, I totally understand what you are saying.

But again, it's not about me. I couldn't care less about how the players or organization care about me. I just enjoy watching the beauty of teammates busting their asses and coming together to win a championship after years and years of hard work. Of course, when it's the team that I've watched for literally 20 years, it means much more, only because I've watched them fail over and over again but continue to try their hardest. That's what sports are all about. The teamwork and the goal.

And I do think the nature of the sport has something to do with it as well. Watching a football team or a hockey team for years is much different than watching a basketball team or a baseball team, in my humble opinion. You watch guys literally get the fucking shit kicked out of them day in and day out for years on end only to fall short and be ripped to shreds by the public, you can't help but feel for them.

 

[Anthony]

The Knicks, those fucking Knicks made me cry numerous times.

 

[Sportsbuck]

I have zero respect for a QB like Steve McNair, because before that ball was snapped, I started to celebrate - I knew that McNair didn't have the balls to throw it into the endzone, and that he would either run it, or make a bad decision. Because that's what he did. If you can't give your team the best chance of winning the game, because you're a coward, you don't deserve any respect.

Would you rather have had him throw into the endzone to an obviously covered receiver?

Dyson was open running a slant underneath the 'backer dropping and McNair hit him perfectly, but Jones stepped up and made the tackle.

Don't see how you place the blame for that play on McNair... if anything it was a great defensive play by Jones.

 

[Maize]

Robbie Gould? The Bears kicker since 2005? Is that the Robbie Gould you're talking about?

Haha, my contemporary hate for the Bears made me type Robbie Gould instead of Paul Edinger. I'm pretty sure it was his rookie year, and I hated him for the few years after when he was with the Bears.

 

[MRN]

Almost cried when UNC won the 'ship in 05. :yep:

I'm an Illinois fan. Fuck you and Sean May's fat, good for nothing ass.

 

[Champ]

When Italy won the World Cup in 06.

 

[Esjay]

I was a little choked up when Miami and Lamar fucking Smith killed us in 2000. I was 10 when that happened, realized how stupid I was being and it hasn't happened since.

 

[Wildcard]

I was delivering pizzas back when Dallas and New York played in the playoffs a few years ago.

I work with a bunch of Giants fans and im a Cowboys fan.

Anyways this one guy was constantly being ignorant as fuck during the game.

He called me when I was out on a delivery to brag about the Giants taking the lead so I threw my cell phone out the window i was so pissed.

 

[citizenerased]

I was delivering pizzas back when Dallas and New York played in the playoffs a few years ago.

I work with a bunch of Giants fans and im a Cowboys fan.

Anyways this one guy was constantly being ignorant as fuck during the game.

He called me when I was out on a delivery to brag about the Giants taking the lead so I threw my cell phone out the window i was so pissed.

No way...

 

[SHOGUN]

Super Bowl 43.

 

[MvP]

Packers football is one of the only things that makes me emotional.

-When they lost the Super Bowl against Denver
-When Al Harris picked off Hasselbeck in OT in the playoffs
-When 4th and 26
-When Greg Jennings caught that 80+ yard TD on the first play of OT against Denver
-When we beat the Bears on New Years Eve and it was thought to be Favre's last game
-When we lost to the Giants in the NFC Championship
-When we lost to the Cardinals in the playoffs last year

probably forgetting a moment or two