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Sports fans, and I count myself as one, are in no position to chide viewers of "Real Housewives" or the daily soaps. Sports fans have their own soap operas: The Jets quarterback debacle. The potential fiascos taking place for the Lakers and the Nets. The list goes on.
The urgency in which sports talk addresses the Jets, the Lakers, and the Nets has all the melodrama and bathos of As the World Turns.
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No doubt. I'm a fan of baseball, tennis and football (in that order), and each has their own variation of melodrama. Tennis is interesting in that the tribalism of team sports is replaced with a kind of hero/parental worship, with fans taunting each other to the effect of "my dad is more badass than your dad," strangely combined with the faux sophistication of the European upper class that tennis has.
But there's nothing quite like watching a World Series game or a Peyton Manning-led drive. I don't watch sports all that frequently, but I usually watch some football most sundays and a dozen or so baseball games throughout the year. I mainly follow sports through websites.
Posted by: jonnybardo | December 28, 2012 at 10:17 AM