Love of Sports and...
Some people like the practice form of group workout.
Why Do People Watch Sports
People feel like being part of a Tribe.
Fans of a tem are like members of a tribe.
People like to share common emotions.
Our nervous systems get somewhat linked in a large crowd.
Its probably caused by electromagnetic induction. The Nervous systems of all the fans are broadcasting and recieving signals continuously. With all that shared emotional activity and sound in the same area its probably easy to feel.
Check out this great article `Cells That Read Minds' (link below) by Sandra Blakeslee in the New York times.
The so-called talent-luck theory, which was first proposed by the UCSD psychologist Nicholas Christenfeld in 1996. (Link Below)
Here's the model in short form: humans like watching feats of physical talent, but we still want to be surprised.
People like the lack of a pre-destined outcome.
When you watch a movie you kind of know the Hero will win.
A sporting event is going to be different and potentially unexpected every time. Even if you put the same teams back on the field a second time, the game may play out drastically differently.
Watching sports gives us a perfect, safe and secure, black and white, little microcosm of life. Following a player, team or game allows us to experience ups and downs and a whole array of emotions, just like in real life, but we aren't actually affected.
People love drama, suspension, and resolution, which are all elements inherent in sports.
A sports game is a sort of story. There is a beginning and an end. There is a protagonist (your team) and an antagonist (the other team). There is a scene and setting, the stadium at noon, and there is a plot, which is the action.
The most popular spectator sports tend to be ones we played as kids
Most people don't have the skills professional athletes have. But thay may have played the sport when young and have an appreciation for how hard it actually is.
Should athletes feel guilty about having sex before a big game.
The World Cup and several Olympic teams have taken temporary vows of celibacy during the Olympic games
Research suggests having sex boosts testosterone production in men, which could give guys an athletic edge.
Scientists discovered a female orgasm could stop the release of a specific pain transmitter for up to 24 hours, which may help ease muscle pain or soreness.
Young writes in his new autobiography that during a December 15, 1985 game between Young’s Buccaneers and the Colts
"It was Late in the game we’re down 31-23 and I’m trying to mount a comeback. I scramble out of the pocket and take a brutal hit. It causes me to fumble just before the whistle blows to stop the play. I am lying on the ground when the defense recovers the loose ball, all but sealing our defeat. Suddenly out of nowhere a yellow flag lands next to me."
Steve Young writes in his new autobiography that during a December 15, 1985 game between Young’s Buccaneers and the Colts, the ref approached him and asked if Young would take the ref’s daughter out.
“I’m in the huddle when the head referee taps me on the shoulder. ‘Can I talk to you for a second?’ he says. I step away from the huddle. ‘Hey listen, my daughter’s going to BYU,’ he whispers. Next thing I know he starts trying to convince me that I should meet his daughter. ‘I’d like you to take her out,’ he says.
“I cannot believe this. We’re in the middle of a game! ‘Oh okay,’ I said. ‘What’s her name?’ He tells me and I return to the huddle . . . Late in the game we’re down 31-23 and I’m trying to mount a comeback. I scramble out of the pocket and take a brutal hit. It causes me to fumble just before the whistle blows to stop the play. I am lying on the ground when the defense recovers the loose ball, all but sealing our defeat. Suddenly out of nowhere a yellow flag lands next to me. The referee whose daughter is headed to BYU calls a personal foul on the defense. First down, Tampa Bay. I get up and brush myself off. Then the ref walks past me and whispers she likes Italian food.”
Some people love Ezekiel Elliott as a player but question the pick.
The awesome Rookie of the Year type of numbers he can easily produce.
Ramsey is the sort of talent that can transform a defense.
Chip Kelly will not say the real reasons he won’t play Colin Kaepernick just yet.
off season surgeries and lack of body weight
Niners general manager Trent Baalke wants to trade Kaepernick to a team whose starting quarterback suffers a season-ending injury before the trade deadline, and Baalke wants to maintain Kaepernick’s trade value
If Kelly were to bench Gabbert after just three games, Kelly would make himself look foolish for picking the wrong quarterback to begin with.
Benching Gabbert won’t suddenly make Kelly’s offense great.
People deny science because they think it conflicts with their personal identity
The main driver of climate science denial is political ideology. Some people don't like the solutions to climate change that involve regulation of polluting industries. Not liking the solutions, they deny there's a problem in the first place.
The gender disparity in science, technology, engineering and math (STEM) jobs has been well documented.
But a new report suggests that few women teaching computing and engineering courses, and social pressure to not propagate female stereotypes in the workplace are partly to blame.
We all hold gender biases, shaped by stereotypes in the wider culture, that affect how we evaluate and treat one another. Several findings detailed in the report shed light on how these stereotypes and biases harm women in engineering and computing.
Women only account for only 8 percent of computer software and 10 percent of computer engineering degrees awarded to women in 2010. Graduation rates for female computer science-related majors have declined for the past 15 years, stagnating at 18 percent from 2008 to 2013.
The good news is: The number of women teaching college-level computer science or engineering has actually increased in the past decade.
Women seem to also have trouble getting and keeping jobs in the computing industry. In the four years after women graduate, barely one in four female graduates get jobs in their major, the report said. Fewer women, 28 percent, stay in computing in the first four years after graduation compare to double the number of men, 57 percent, who work in the field.
The exodus of women could be attributed to hostile workplaces, where combating microaggressions social pressures that science and math are for men, pushes them out.
People were so good at it that it seemed like a no brainer.