Okie here. It's hard not being all the fuck about sports. I like football. I played football in school. But it doesn't constitute the majority of my personality. My granddad ALWAYS has OU games on. It doesn't matter if they're #2 or #22 or got beat by Kansas. It doesn't matter if they're playing in the Rose Bowl or the Clorox™ Toilet Bowl. He's practically consumed by it. I don't understand it. I love going to the games. You go for the long walk in a loud crowd to end up inside and overpay for a shitty beer that gets warm in five minutes (because it's 97 degrees), and after enduring all that, your guys might still lose. It actually kinda rocks.

But I prefer concerts. I get to dance to my favorite songs and watch my favorite aging 90s rockers put on a show for cheap because they haven't been big in 20 years. A concert hardly goes south. But nobody shows up to the water cooler on Monday and goes, "How about that Weezer concert?"

It gets pretty awkward having to tell people you didn't watch the game because sports is just not important to you.

You can make a game out of it. I once had a colleague who mastered it: didn't care too much about most sports but knew which colleague liked which sport and which team. So he checked scores and every time a colleague's favorite team lost he innocently asked at work how the game was. It's risky since people can get really emotional about it but it's usually lots of fun.

said person, who was JUST talking to me like we were old friends, will suddenly look at me like I had a turd sticking out of my pocket.

Which you usually had, but they don't have to be RUDE about it!

bread and circuses to keep the masses distracted from the crisis that are actually killing us.

how fucking dare you disregard the distraction? it's like they can't fathom anyone who doesn't chase the tennis ball, they can't imagine what someone would do without the soap opera of sports to occupy their lives.

Futbol is life.

I was gonna say the football thing for the global South ended two weeks ago. Then I realized that wasn't the World cup, but rather just the European championship. I know my football stuff. 👍

I agree.

I've done pretty much all I can. I am done with watching the news and being in panic all the time over things I cannot change.

Time to have some nice distractions now.

What did you just call me?