Sport fans, sometimes also called sport devotees, followers, or supporters, are persons who are enthusiastically devoted to a particular athlete, team or sport. They may show their enthusiasm by often attending sporting events or watch on television, being members of a fan club, follow sport news through newspapers, online websites, and creating fanzines. Their disposition is often such that they will experience a game or event by living through their favored players or teams. These behaviors manifest itself in different ways. To enable better understanding of these behavioral patterns, we have to classify these sports fans into groups based on their devotion to teams: fair-weather fans, bandwagon and the super-fans.
The fair weather fans are committed to one team and are only with the team they successful and are successful. Then loyalty to the team does not encompass during down time when the team is losing thus eroding their support for the team. They wear their team colors when their team is winning and are eager and always quick to point to the team’s victories. The opposite is ...
Blood pressure rising and testosterone dropping are good symptoms (that is, to someone who is a sports enthusiast); nail biting, heart pounding, and barn burning games are bread and butter to sports enthusiasts such as me. Rivalry, unity, and relaxation help me bond with other individuals who share a common interest as I do. Within the article “Are Sports Fans Happier?”, author Sid Kirchheimer gives his bias reasoning over sports and its social, health, and psychological effects on sports enthusiasts, which elaborates and aligns concisely to why I passionately enjoy lacrosse and soccer. Fundamentally speaking, sports initially bequeath an array of positive benefits besides good health and mental stability; sports allow individuals to indulge
the wild antics of the die hard fans. In my essay I will try and attempt to describe as
Lets look into the psychology of being a sports fan shall we? A loyal fan likes to represent his/her team in the best possible way. Loyal fans cannot stay away from the game. They will support their respe...
Every man sitting around our big screen T.V. has his own team to cheer for, which usually causes many spirited discussions during the four quarters of testosterone induced insanity. As the game plays on we all grow further and further engrossed in watching. As the women talk in the kitchen and the children run around, sometimes even right in front of the television, our stares never stray from the glowing giver of joy.
nature of engaging in spectatorship: it can easily go wrong. The nature of a character’s
In the United States, Football is one sport that most men love watching, may it be on television or live stadium (Chandler, 1988). For example, men are willing and able to sit down at home in front of the television for more than six hours just watching the football games and wouldn’t sit down doing any other thing for more than 15 minutes. The questions needed to be asked in the back of our minds are; by the men watching football games, what are the gains met and what the satisfactions are they get after watching them after hours, weeks and even months. What attracts them to devote most of their spare time to watching the football games? One obvious answer to this is the entertainment within the games as the men get something to entertain them apart from what they do in their boring daily routines. Taking another directional argument; rather than the amusement football games offer to the men, they offer some thi...
Essentially, three of four racing fans seeking excitement of live horse racing at Santa Anita Park are middle age and older men. The rest are young men, women and kids. In addition, the fans wear neat attire in brown, gray, or black outerwear. Also, the fans clustered in pairs, family groups, and peer groups. First, there are couples of male and female pair, father and son, mother and daughter, and peer friends. Secondly, the family groups range from a young couple with a toddler in tow to a multi-generational group of grandparents, parents, and kids. This group usually stays together near the race track watching the horses gallop toward the starting post. At least once, members of this group may try their luck by betting on the races. Lastly, the peer groups are mostly m...
The importance of fans is vital because in addition to skill talent and hardwork, fans greatly affect how a team performs in their games. They affect the way a player plays because fans have a way of getting into their players heads and the opponent's head, even the referees are affected by the fans and we rarely notice the importance. In 2001 a Sports Ethics article “ The Ideal Fan” by Myles Dichter he explains the importance of fans and connection between fans
Everyone feels the need to belong. Some people find the answer to fulfill that need in sports. In the United States, the go-to sport is football. Following one’s hometown team or childhood NFL team through the regular season, playoffs, and hopefully, the Super Bowl has become a staple for today’s culture. Whether or not their favorite team makes it to the big Super Bowl game, they still find themselves cheering on one of the teams competing. T...
Literature has shown there is a constructive correlation between an individuals socioeconomic status (SES) and their participation in sporting activities. This piece of writing will be defining the impact social class division has on the opportunities for an individual to participate in sport and leisure activities. Also the key aspects of the social class system within the United Kingdom, from the traditional methods of social stratification, to the modern 7 class system released in 2013 by the British Broadcast Corporation (BBC). The term 'Social Class' or 'Socioeconomic Groups' , refer to an individuals status within society. There are various factors which determine an individual's status, such as; income, family background and educational experiences. This socioeconomic status can be seen as a status hierarchy in which three main common social classes are informally accepted in the majority of societies: Upper Class, Middle Class and Working Class (Wesson et al, 2000).
Derek Thompson’s article about “fair-weather fans” explains that it is okay to stop supporting the local professional sports team if they are on a losing streak and root for winners instead. The article suggests that one of the reasons locals feel pressured to support the local team, even if they are losing, is because they don’t have a lot of choices. Although having only a few professional teams per state doesn’t create options, it has its perks as well. It can bring people together. As mentioned in the article, London has several professional soccer teams that can “move up or down through various leagues”. I was born and raised in Sao Paulo, Brazil, where sports are organized the same way as in London. One problem with having many opposing
All day yesterday on my social media feed there was talk of Trev Rich’s concert and how people are “jocking” him. I found all this talk intriguing because very few people voiced their opinion on this matter until the day of his concert. My blood boiled as I read the ignorant, backhanded comments plastered all on Facebook from “fans”. I soon felt the need to express my feelings and explain the difference between being a fan and “jocking”, in a live Facebook video. I did what needed to be done and corrected a lot of the uneducated “fans” that were basically haters. All the energy from reading and talking about those comments made me excited to watch some of the top Dj’s and rappers in Colorado perform last night at the Gothic Theater.
Sport and identity together have a unique relationship in which any regional or national place can use sport as a means to create a sense of identity. The relationship is complex and varied. Identity can be explained as understanding what or who a person or a thing is. Sport is capable of creating a feeling of nationhood and this is an important factor. It is important too for a nation to create a sense of identity but it is especially important for a regional area. For a small country to host a major sporting event is a significant achievement especially with having rivalry with bigger neighbouring countries. Nationalism can be expressed in a less aggressive manner through sport because there is a clear winner and loser; it is a clear cut way of asserting superiority of your notion over others. In this essay, one regional and one national example will be looked upon to see how they use sport to assert their sense of identity. Cricket in Yorkshire County Cricket Club will be used as a source of a regional example and rugby in South Africa will be used as a national example. We will look at the factors they used to inflict sport as a means to promote their identity and also if these identities are sustainable.
“Sports are for fun, but they also offer benefits and lessons that carry over into all aspects of life”. This well-known anonymous quotation conveys the message that sport is the game which has some rules and custom. It is not only for fun and entertainment, but there are also some benefits of playing sports and which gives some important lessons for life. Every kind of physical sports is healthy because it involves running, jumping, stretching, mind skills and much more. There are so many sports available in the world nowadays, but we can categorize them by the numbers of players, the three main categories are individual sport, dual sport and team sport.
Finally, baseball fans are insanely loyal to the team of their choice. Should the home team's players lose eight in a row, their fans may begin to call them "bums." They may even suggest that the slumping cleanup hitter be sent to the minors or the manager fired. However, such reactions only hide their broken hearts. They still check the sports pages and tune in to get the score. Furthermore, this intense loyalty can make fans dangerous, for anyone who dares to say to a loyal fan that some other team has sharper fielding or a better attitude could risk permanent, physical harm.