There was a time, back in the 80s and 90s that game anticipation was extremely high. There were team articles during the week, but very little practice info. Occasionally, something would leak, so as a rule, I was stress-free during the week as the only tension I felt was the upcoming game. Parcells saw to that. Thankfully.
I won’t rip social media per se as I love my iPad and all the access to life (I never do twitter or any other app save for FB), but I really admire the present generations given how well you take in all the stresses that social media provides on a minute by minute basis. I refuse to do it. It would be extremely unhealthy for my emotional being.
So, save for the Rangers and the Giants, I stay away from the day to day stresses of sports and simply peek at standings from time to time to see how certain teams I’ve favored all my life, are doing. Much “healthier” that way. FOR ME..
Sure the rule changes in the NFL are brutal (though in many ways address player safety and that’s a good thing) and it’s a big reason why my overall NFL interest has waned.
Again, I admire how many of you can take the incessant info pouring out of all types of media 24/7. Kudos..
Now, I am a fan of a baseball team but almost never watch them or any game honestly. NBA never watch it anymore. NHL, rarely watch.
I am a big NFL fan but even that isn't the way it used to be. The demands of daily life, the involvement of too much exterior crap to the games themselves has turned me off some.
I can say I truly love the Giants and it is still a all year around thing for me but, it would feel so much better if we weren't a joke around the league.
Stopped watching NASCAR - no reason
The Knicks suck so I stopped watching NBA
When I moved I lost MSG, so rarely watch the Rangers, but at least follow them
I watch a lot more soccer then I ever did
I watch more golf because it is almost always available
I catch more highlights than I do games, and it hasn't helped that my rooting interests haven't exactly been entertaining over the recent years.
I will say that I'm starting to get into it again with the resurgence of the Mets and Rangers. Even getting my wife into it where she knows a lot of the players.
If the Giants become relevant again I'd like to think I'd be just as exuberant as I was when I was a kid...hopefully lol.
And at risk of millering the thread, I don't think the younger generation is any good at handling the social media explosion and it is doing them (and us) great emotional harm.
Now, I watch the Giants and that's about it. Oh, I might catch parts of another game if it's raining out and I have nothing else to do.
I watch the Rangers (every game except those west coast games) and will watch other NHL games because hockey is my favorite sport to watch now.
I'll try to make time to watch the EPL, but NBC isn't very cooperative and I'm not ponying up for a subscription to peacock+.
That's about it. I quit following baseball back in the early '90s. Basketball, I couldn't name 5 NBA players.
College football/basketball doesn't interest me at all.
Basically, I rather go for a walk or play pickleball than sit on my ass watching most sports. You would think as I get older I would be more prone to sitting in front of the TV, but it's just the opposite.
I also don't do SM outside of here and FB.
August is all about installs and INDYs. 2-a-days start today!
Stay positive. Don't let the noise drag you to a bad place.
Go Giants!
Football was my life from around 1985-2015. All the sucking snd ruining my Mondays took its toll. Then I met my wife and had my son. Now I follow the Giants obviously as I’m on here each day, but it’s not to the level I once did.
I was big on MLS in the 2000s when a bunch of my friends played, but as they all retired that has totally fallen off my radar.
Basketball was never a big sport to me other than when Jordan et al were in their prime. Once those guys careers ended I was out completely.
And as you mentioned, social media and 24 hour access is too overwhelming.
NCAAF
MLB
NHL
CFL
The last few years it has really changed.
Now it is
NCAAF
NHL
NFL
I stopped watching baseball all together and I have found that NCAAF is just more fun to watch than the NFL.
With the Carolina Hurricanes finally being fun to watch after sucking for so long. I just found myself enjoying watching them. Win or lose. I have rarely missed a game since Rod became the head coach..
During the 80/90's Knicks and Rangers fan.
Then in the 2000's watched the Yankess when they were in the Playoffs. Stopped all of base ball the last 10 years.
I still watch every Giants game, go online to read the news and fan pages. So that activity is up.
But I would say as I get older, I am more focussed on just the NFL, but overall not happy with the league on a lot of fronts. Wish it was just football and less everything else.
If I wasnt a Giants fan since the early 70's i'd watch no sports.
So lets hope for better times going forward.
Too much NFL now. I think we always worried that the NFL would become diluted due to over exposure, and I think it has. So, I don't pay as much attention to the NFL as I used to... but I do pay a LOT of attention to baseball once again.
Age I am certain has quite a bit to do with it.
I have become a huge F1 fan over the years. I will watch qualifying on Saturday which lasts 75 minutes and the race which will last 2 hours max. F1 has a two hour time limit for races.
I am a Yankee fan, but at this point just a scoreboard watcher and the occasional game. Follow NHL, College football but rarely watch anymore.
I agree with age. I odnt do Tik Tok (my kids do). I stopped twitter years ago. Just too much work amnd time, so Im focussed just on a few fan sites.
Times are different, like TV, its more scattered( diversified). So it will never be the same when all there was ...was just ESPN.
My wife likes watching college basketball, so we watch almost every Syracuse and Vermont game....not other teams.
NBA is boring to me. I follow the Celtics, but try to tune into the last quarter, rarely a full game.
Baseball is RedSox only. I like daytime games and sometimes listen on the radio. Season is so long, but I'm more likely to watch when they are in contention.
I watch much more pro bicycle racing. So many races are available on streaming services year round. Cyclo-cross in the fall and early winter. Classics in the spring, followed by the Giro, Tour and Vuelta.
I follow the Yankees less day-to-day, maybe because I've grown tired of the hype train coupled with never leading a game vs. HOU until (rarely) the 9th inning and the 12+ strikeout performances every October.
Rangers I have ramped up because of this site and the two pods I follow...like the NFL, if you put in the work to try and understand what you're seeing, the game is far more interesting.
I'm also an F1 fan going back to the 70s. Things have come a long way since reading the results in the NY Times then reading the race reports in Road and Track 3 months later. Pretty immersed at this point, but I'm also heavily into the technical side of the sport and the content in that area is also quite rich.
Lastly, and this is one I do miss, since the late 1960’s I used to watch all the Mets games but since the NL went to the DL I don’t enjoy baseball anymore and have given it up.
As s sports junky I used to even watch car racing and other lesser sports but not much other than Giants and Knicks these days.
Lastly, and this is one I do miss, since the late 1960’s I used to watch all the Mets games but since the NL went to the DL I don’t enjoy baseball anymore and have given it up.
As s sports junky I used to even watch car racing and other lesser sports but not much other than Giants and Knicks these days.
Lastly, and this is one I do miss, since the late 1960’s I used to watch all the Mets games but since the NL went to the DL I don’t enjoy baseball anymore and have given it up.
As s sports junky I used to even watch car racing and other lesser sports but not much other than Giants and Knicks these days.
You know with an average of about 4 pitchers pitching a game these days; and starters being removed in like the 5th to 6th inning --even when pitching well--deciding when to pinch hit for one isn't really this master plan thing you know.