BlueSeats wrote:

Allanfan20 wrote:

BlueSeats wrote:

Nalod wrote:
I thought the venom in Cleveland by 20,000 people was kind of pathetic in its own right.

Sorry but Knicks fans still revile Riley, Boston, Pippen, etc, after all these years.

Sports is about heros and villians. When you have none the game is meaningless.

It's good to have someone or something to hate.

I have to disagree with this from the standpoint of a sports fan and a moral standpoint. First off, you become what you hate. When I mean hate, I mean PURE hatred. It's an obsession and when you hate something you think about that crap all the time until it actually becomes a part of your own life.

Second, why on earth is an athlete worth that much obsession when there's so much other crap going on? I mean, I don't promote hating ANYONE! Let alone an athlete? People are obsessing over this man when there's basically a war going on in Korea, deforrestation, children being abused in all sorts of horrific way, ect... Yet we exert our energy over LeBron???

Yes, sports ARE important. I do admit that. They have been since the Ancient Greek times. Anyone who doesn't see that is naive. It's a game of basketball essentially. Boo him. Let him know how you feel. The problem is. People actually feel like the man betrayed him in a real war or something, or that's the vibe I certainly got from the Cleveland crowd last night. "Akron hates you?"

Please. Get over it. It's not that big of a deal. The Cavs will suck bad enough in no time to get a new #1 pick and maybe in the meantime, Dan Gilbert will realize how much money he is losing and hopefully he will sell the team, b/c God knows, he did NOTHING to keep LeBron. Maybe HE should be the enemy, when you really want to think of it.

I think you're taking this way too seriously. The hate is a game within the game. Something perhaps along the lines of trash talking.

I'm not a huge sports fan, and I agree many use pop culture like sports, TV, celebrity fascination, and even our current state of "food fight" news to anaestatize themselves against the world's brutal realities. But, if you're going to enjoy it, hate will only heighten your enjoyment.

It's also possible I'm just a really bad person.

yeah... MJ used threaten his opponents' lives in the tunnel postgame if he thought they even fouled him too hard... I don't think the players thought it was a serious threat. Just like I loved chanting 19-18 everytime I saw a Boston fan and tell Philly fans I'd give their city to the terrorists as a peace offering. I hate them but its relative to sports.

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