Are professional athletes laughing at all of us behind closed doors....

[Tron]

.....us getting all emotional (on different levels) at their performance and outcome of their games?

 

[CASPERWAIT$]

No, they laugh at us behind velvet ropes

 

[Tron]

BOOM

 

[Mudcat]

A few of them laugh I imagine but professional athletes have never seemed blessed, as a group, with great serenity and spiritual insight. Many of them are at least as caught up in themselves as the fans.

I'm sure when things go badly they tell themselves any number of lies about how they don't care who says what. They might laugh bitterly, dishonestly.

But when things are going well and fans are declaring them gods, they wallow in it like a pig in shit.



But it's like anything. All athletes are not one thing and neither are all fans.

I personally see nothing laughable about getting invested in a team and having emotions about their fortunes. We all have to pass the hours of our lives and that is one way. People have different hobbies and interests, and I don't see that anything is more correct than anything else. Personal taste.

But, yeah, there is some ridiculous, hysterical extremism no doubt.

 

[fiveteamer]

Mickey Mantle doesn't care about you.

 

[RayRay]

Lebron is too busy crying to be laughing

 

[reno cool]

I think so. I mean all this bs rivalry, yada yada.
I mean I've seen enough player interviews to know they see things differently from fans. They are professionals and they know they're in a business.

Like I said before, its all very similar to professional wrestling. Thats why I believe international competition is vastly superior, at least there is something possibly important that unites the players. (and thats why you don't bite people when your representing your country )

 

[betplom]

(and thats why you don't bite people when your representing your country )

Italians are delicious.

I give the spic fucker a pass because of this.

 

[Boner_18]

Some. But most not.

 

[Cami]

Italians are delicious.

I give the spic fucker a pass because of this.

 

[roguejuror]

[VINE]MUQX9OeT2rK[/VINE]

 

[Saulty]

Only way to find out is plant a bug behind closed doors and find out if they are laughing at us. I have a friend that may be able to supply us with bugs but the hardest part will be to pass through security.

 

[Gilmartin]

Some. But most not.

This. I think a lot of them buy into their own hype; it would be hard not to given the atmospheres created at live sporting events, the amount of media interest, etc. It would begin to feel like what you were doing was genuinely important.

 

[housepicks]

I hate....hate the phrase


"The game of basketball"