It seriously bugs me when people scream at the television, whether it is to scream at the protagonist not to go check out the creepy noise in the basement or scream at the ref. YOU ARE NOT COOL. Guys get together like chimpanzees, competing to be louder and louder. One guy screams at Kobe, another is throwing out obscenities, the third is saying “yeah!!!” (he is not as into the game on the inside, so makes up for it with grunting loudly in agreement).
You cannot be serious. How could you possibly be paying attention to the game with ten braying donkeys to your left and right? It is literally impossible for me to enjoy any televised sports competition when people are screaming any variation of “come on,” like it’ll actually affect Gilbert’s performance. I can completely understand being absorbed into a game when you’re surrounded by face-painted fans and you can hear the live organ. When you are sitting on your Ethan Allen couch enjoying some Zima? Not so much.
how 23yo frank felt when he realized there were 3 quarters left in the game to pretend to his girlfriend that he was manly and cared
A side note: tweeting/facebooking the play by play is both obnoxious and an indicator that you are overcompensating for a small penis. It is the zero cost version of buying a sports car, huge tv, and membership to the NRA.
NV/R,
Maria
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Hahahahaha… but also, if people are screaming, I can’t hear anything. At all. So that’s another reason why it’s a pet peeve.
While yelling to root your favorite team on makes no sense to me. Yelling at those God damned Colts for mistackles. Yelling at the God damned Bruins for a stupid penalty during the playoffs. Yelling at Tiger Woods because he is a douche. All are things that just naturally come out of the body of a man. It’s a little like a social wet dream. We don’t intend to do it, but we just sort of notice it all over us.
My theory is it comes from our days on the plains in Africa. Our ancestors would see zebra and begin to yell and make threatening moves and gestures to eventually kill and eat them. As man evolved, the residual instinct is still with us as the referees in the striped uniforms seems to get the worst of man’s yelling. I don’t think the onslaught would be quite as bad if the leagues didn’t hire most of them from the Referee School for the Blind, but equal opportunity is an important part of our country.
You have to understand that men when only in the company of other men watching a game yell far less than if we know women are with in ear shot of the game. It is to show virility and viability as a provider. So a woman watching a game with a bunch of men will hear vastly more ejaculations than might normally be the case.
So ladies, when you watch a game with your boyfriends or guy friends or husbands, know they are yelling not because they care about the game. It’s because they are just telling you, on a basal level, they love you and want to provide for you. Unless those God damned Cubs blow another World Series chance! I mean, it’s been 101 years for the love of fuck’s sake!
You are a mind-reader. I detest people who post 15 statuses in 2 minutes because they MUST share everything that’s happening in the game. Ugh.
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