Sports Obsession. I Don't Get It.

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It is truly a sad state of affairs when I open my email...and have to delete 15 messages from a supervisor that are all about football playoffs.

Can someone PLEASE explain to me why people are SO obsessed with sports that it supercedes EVERYTHING? I'd really like to understand this because honestly, It drives me berserk. All I ever hear about here is football. Besides computers of course.

Call me unreasonable, but I should NOT have 3 times as many emails about football in my inbox as I do that are actually relevant to work.

Comments

[blackpaladin.livejournal.com]

As a male resident of an office that is 80% women, most of whom go on incessantly about the latest episode of American Idol or Survivor or whatever "reality" crap was on the previous night, I think this issue has less to do about gender and more to do about living vicariously through people on television. (And I say this as a dyed-in-the-wool football fanatic!)

[fuego.livejournal.com]

uhg...yeah, true- those things are just as annoying. i'm not sure that it's fortunate that i only hear this stuff in my office about sports, or not. on one hand, it's all irksome. on the other....at least there's variety :-P

[blackpaladin.livejournal.com]

Back when I was out in the cubes instead of back here in my corner (gods, I do love this part of having an office), just trading emails about it wasn't enough: the women would gather around someone's desk (usually one of the people right next to me) and yammer about AI for, literally, 45 minutes to an hour before someone would walk by and give them the "OK, ladies, back to work" look. That's actually one of the reasons I started wearing my iPod at work: I couldn't concentrate with the inane "Oh, did you hear this person, they sounded awful" conversation going on, literally, right behind my head.

Of course, sending mail to "everyone in the office" is not a shortcut for us because the "everyone in the office" d-list includes the President Of The Company, and there's no "everyone in the office but him" list. *grin*

[mmc327.livejournal.com]

Anybody who would spend 45 minutes to an hour talking about what I call American Karaoke has got to be a loser. Then again, I may be a sports fan, but there's no way I would spend that much time talking about the games on TV the previous weekend or night while at work.

[liritsvoice.livejournal.com]

oh my gosh, i know what youre talking about!!! i used to teach at a preschool (you can imagine how many guys worked there), and i couldnt relate to about 90% of the conversation just because i dont watch those shows. and when they werent babbling about reality tv, it was obsessively reading trashy mags about the country's hottest 20 guys, or who all the beloved celebrities are fucking. blech. not my cup of tea. made it quite difficult to make friends, actually.