Watching sports in general
I think people who like watching sports are able to kid themselves into thinking the outcome of the game actually matters. It's not like a book or a film where it's designed to resemble realistic events. You're required to suspend your own disbelief. It's like watching a game of chess and thinking the king has actually died.
( Digeridude Lord Wellington's Beef Trapeze, Thu 15 Oct 2009, 16:23, 5 replies)

It's not though...
People watch sport as it is entertaining, in the same way that you may read a book as it is entertaining.

In fact, if anything, sport may be better, as it is real life, not like fiction books. The game matters to the watcher as much as a book matters to a reader.
(The Kwyjibo A big, dumb, balding North American ape., Thu 15 Oct 2009, 16:27, closed)

Plus a work of fiction is set in stone and intentionally (and therefore somewhat in a fake way) dramatic
Where as in sport anything can happen!
( whenanimalsattackhumans clad in global hypercolour, Thu 15 Oct 2009, 16:35, closed)

it's just as pointless as..
the fat, overweight, often racist pricks that hurl abuse at the finely tuned atheletes taking part in said game, just because they missed that free kick from over a 100 yards, when they themselves are still out of breath from getting back from the pie and chips van at half time..

and then have a fight with someone afterwards.
(danniekavanagh did nothing constructive on, Thu 15 Oct 2009, 16:32, closed)

It's like this
1. You decide to support a particular team.
2. You therefore hope for them to have success.
3. If they are successful, you are happy, if they are not you are disappointed.
4. Ergo, the outcome of the game matters. Not on any global scale, but to you and others like you.
(Vice Admiral Sir Charles Cockbrush KCB MBE DSO, who is finding it increasingly difficult to log into b3ta.com wants to duck your aunt and kick your puppy, Thu 15 Oct 2009, 16:35, closed)

Sports suck ass...
Football doesn't make any sense as a form of entertainment - it's a few blokes running around kicking an inflatable from one end of a field to the other. The only thing that gives it any semblance of interest, is the introduction of 'rules', which only really serve to give some structure to the pointlessness of it all.
Ditto Formula 1 - it's just some men driving round and around and around.
Following sports is like using Twitter... it's only really important to you and those who follow along with you. Even then, it's not actually important, you've just convinced yourself that it is to give you something to have in common with the others.
(Brett Starbuck, Thu 15 Oct 2009, 16:56, closed)