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<blockquote data-quote="Celebrim" data-source="post: 604871" data-attributes="member: 4937">CTD: Well, I think you haven't hung out at enough water coolers if you think debate and passion have left the fandom of football.&nbsp; Since I never lived in one of the markets, and never grew up among pro football fans, I actually never had anything passionate to say or feel about football until I became a player of Fantasy Football, and that is all about stats and numbers.&nbsp; When I played FF, not only did I watch, listen on the radio, listen on web broadcasts and read the news fervantly, but I became fans of three or four teams by virtue of becoming fans of individual players whose character and skill I could admire.&nbsp;&nbsp; For instance, I cared about the Bucs because of Derrick Brooks - maybe the finest man in football and arguably for several years its finest defensive player.&nbsp; Now that I've stopped playing, I've also stopped watching. So what I think is missing is not mystery, but involvement.&nbsp; In a world where everything is increasingly interactive, and the sports that people enjoy watching are increasingly the recreations they actual engage in - say snow boarding - simply watching people play a sport that you yourself have never player nor even aspired to playing is well increasingly dull.&nbsp; How many people younger than ourselves actually go out after school every day of thier childhood and play tackle football in someones back yard or in a cow pasture?&nbsp; How many youth's heroes are now Tony Hawk or Brian McBride or Harry Potter, and couldn't now name the quarterback of the NY Jets?</blockquote>

[QUOTE="Celebrim, post: 604871, member: 4937"] CTD: Well, I think you haven't hung out at enough water coolers if you think debate and passion have left the fandom of football. Since I never lived in one of the markets, and never grew up among pro football fans, I actually never had anything passionate to say or feel about football until I became a player of Fantasy Football, and that is all about stats and numbers. When I played FF, not only did I watch, listen on the radio, listen on web broadcasts and read the news fervantly, but I became fans of three or four teams by virtue of becoming fans of individual players whose character and skill I could admire. For instance, I cared about the Bucs because of Derrick Brooks - maybe the finest man in football and arguably for several years its finest defensive player. Now that I've stopped playing, I've also stopped watching. So what I think is missing is not mystery, but involvement. In a world where everything is increasingly interactive, and the sports that people enjoy watching are increasingly the recreations they actual engage in - say snow boarding - simply watching people play a sport that you yourself have never player nor even aspired to playing is well increasingly dull. How many people younger than ourselves actually go out after school every day of thier childhood and play tackle football in someones back yard or in a cow pasture? How many youth's heroes are now Tony Hawk or Brian McBride or Harry Potter, and couldn't now name the quarterback of the NY Jets? [/QUOTE]

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