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Anon doesn't understand streamer fans (sh.itjust.works)
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[–] fibojoly@sh.itjust.works 238 points 1 month ago (34 children)

I've no difficulty understanding lads being thirsty and attracted by a lovely lady who appears to be into gaming and hey, you can even interact and try to get her attention!

Now, explain to me lads getting super invested in some lads running around a field chasing a ball. Like, literally having their lives revolve around it, their identity entirely centered on it. Now that's a complete mystery to me.

[–] belastend@lemmy.dbzer0.com 50 points 1 month ago (14 children)

As someone who was born into the ball chasing cult, there are three things:

  1. The social aspect. It's the one thing that brings my family together, each week, to watch the game. For away games, you have a cookout with some family friends, buy some drinks and then you watch the game. If it's in the evening, then you go out afterwards. For home games, you gather the same group, but now you're gonna meet more people in the arena, people you know because they're also in the cult. You have a drink, you have a laugh and you catch up with them. Our team is a second division side with some okay players and a great goalie, so the game is almost relegated (heh) to play second fiddle.

Oh and don't get me started on the choreos.

  1. Hometown pride: This team has been here since the 19th century and for me, going to the games or even having just a passing interest in the team is part of being from that town.

You tag lamp posts in your town with their stickers and you do the same in the surrounding smaller cities. By looking at the stickers in any given town, you can see to which city their youth gravitates, which tickles my brain in ways I can't explain.

  1. It's fun to watch: Arguably the weakest reason, but God damn, sometimes even second division footy just looks so good! When you see someone pull off a sick trick or make a clean tackle or catch, you get that sweet dopamine kick, it's insane.

I'd never beat someone because of their allegiance. Those people can kick rocks.

[–] scytale@piefed.zip 8 points 1 month ago (7 children)

Hometown pride

Do you also refer to your city’s sport team using “we”, “us”, and “our”? I’ve always found that weird, because while I’m a fan, I don’t consider myself being a part of what the team accomplishes. I’m just a spectator. I just refer to them as the team name.

[–] rooroo@feddit.org 5 points 1 month ago (1 children)

Not the person you replied to but yes I do. I used to think it’s weird but there’s a few things that made me change that feeling.

One, I’ve been at games decided by fans. Players said they couldn’t hear anything on the pitch. Home sides shat their pants during warm up. I wasn’t on the pitch and didn’t touch a ball but I was part of one of the reasons we went home happy.

Two, and more importantly: when I think of the club I don’t think of the players and the managers. I think of my friends, I think of the crowd in the stands. My team has a crazy successful time right now (Football fans will surely be able to guess by now) but it wasn’t much different when we were playing 2nd division. Players leave all the time—currently my team has like one player who was part of the team for the whole successful run—but the club isn’t defined by the players, but by the people in that stands. They don’t change. And while football is certainly an enjoyable sport to watch, I wouldn’t care about it half as much without the fan culture surrounding it. Over the years I’ve become part of that as well, so fuck yes I say “we”.

[–] belastend@lemmy.dbzer0.com 4 points 1 month ago (1 children)

I am with you: I've been there when we played in the 4th division, outside of professional football and within my lifetime, we made it back into the top flight, with one player scoring in each division on the way. He was the first German player to do that, and while I know of another German who got there 2 years later, I don't know if this happened anywhere else.

[–] rooroo@feddit.org 2 points 1 month ago (1 children)

Now I’m curious. It sounds like SVD?

[–] belastend@lemmy.dbzer0.com 3 points 1 month ago (1 children)

Nope, I'll give you another hint: we had the most chaotic promotion match in the history of the Bundesliga

[–] rooroo@feddit.org 1 points 1 month ago (1 children)

I’m stumped. A club that played 4th division that actually has fans?

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