For me:
NFL: The blonde singer nonsense
CFB: Replacing an undefeated FSU team with a one loss SEC team in the playoff
So much leading up to it though, and now we play games at 9 a.m. in Aims Iowa and Bloomington Indiana!
You can't break me
NBA: Sonics leaving (and I won't come back when the city gets a new team because of how the league and product evolved)
NFL: Jerry Jones still being alive and every housewife in America elbowing in on fantasy football.
MLB: 2001 M's not making the World Series.
CBB: Romar being kept around for 2-3 years too long and the NBA screwing up their league entry rules.
CFB: I'm still breathing.
CFB: season tickets got moved after the renovation and cancelled, and now parking situation sucks ass for an east sider without season tickets. And… no one to get drunk with before the game anymore. Ok, I’m still watching religiously, but I am not attending games anymore. NFL: It’s fine. After watching the Pats win 6 and Brady 7, the excitement is gone, but it’s still football.
CBK: UW sucks and the Pac-12 network sucks. Once I got rid of Dish and went to YouTube TV I no longer got UW games. I’m BACK this year after a long hiatus. All this said, our uniforms look like Coors Light cans. MLB: I was at the game where we were eliminated in 2001. Eventually with talent leaving and the Mariners making awful decision after awful decision I just lost interest in following the team and became a casual.
MLS: I tried to get into it but it was more of a gay pride homo parade than a sport. I’m OUT. NHL: I’m BACK. Go Kraken. Our fans are a bunch of homos though. Half of them need to stick to watching the Sounders. This is hockey, NOT tummy sticks.
NASCAR Trucks: UW football made me a fan and I haven’t looked back! I love all them big wrecks and cautions!
NBA: The Sonics leaving and I don't find the players now very interesting and because of the college age changes and international players I don't know who they are.
NFL: I'm still in but mostly because it's nice to watch football casually and not have psychotic rooting interests. The Chiefs are boring though.
CBK: UW falling apart but I've long said CBK fucked themselves up with the portal first. March Madness is still impossible to ignore though.
CFB: I'm still here obviously but a lot of shit has come together to reduce it. All the players leaving when DB left was a blow. The slow death of regionalism in the sport has sucked to me too because taking that out you're just watching shitty minor league football ..
Dittos Race.
I may complain a lot about the "improvements" to CFB and pine for the olden days. But I'm a UW Letter Winner, 1st born son of a drunken UW frat boi, and scourge of all Central Oregon Ducktards. And I hate pro sports for the most part.
Pup said you were still getting your associates degree at "Greenwater College"
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NBA: Jailblazers, then doing jack shit with Dame ended it for good with me. fuck them and fuck Jody Allen.
NFL: don't really give a shit. I just follow our? players. all the new roughness penalties are fucking stupid though and make zero sense.
NHL: fucking love it, but I live in Vegas so I'm a Golden Knights fan. And they won a natty.
CBB: I get tired of half our? team being injured before the season even starts and we don't even see the whole team until halfway through conference play. Altman must be beating them or something.
CFB: still my favorite sport on the planet, but it's going to be minor leagues soon enough (if it isn't already) and NIL will get further out of control.
with soccer I hate watch the Timbers because they've sucked ever since they won a natty, but MLS is minor league so I watch the big boys in Europe for fun.
Nothings changes with me
I was in football mode, because it was the last sport I was passionate about. It started getting soft and corporate around 2010, but I think the success of the Wokehawks and Huskies in the 2010s kept me aboard and to the point I'd yell and punch the couch during bad plays. Now if the Pridehawks lose three in a row, it's like…"Oh well…I'm sure Ashley on KJR will give great analysis on KJR Monday morning about it"
CBB: It was gradual, but the 18 and 19 year olds going to the NBA hurt it big time, and that was 20-25 years ago
NBA: Also got bad around 2000
Still watchable during at times, but too many three point jackers, and too much political activism, no post play, and soft players
I went basically two years without watching any, then watched parts of the playoffs, but not real impressive
Now superstars get the Lakers to draft their unqualified sons, absolutely pathetic
beisbol: was always boring, but the 90s Mariners of Gwiffey, Edgar, RJ, and Buhner were fun
@puppylove_sugarsteel King of the Jack Doogs!!
The nerve of the that guy.
I was 12 when the Sonics were born. So that's the only local team I cared about. And I was a NBA fan from before that. Still am although I think the game sucks at the moment
Seahawks and Mariners came long after I had other favorite teams. Rarely watch baseball anymore. Bandwagon NFL fan. Who is winning?
Born a Husky football fan. Just a few more tweaks and college football will be fine
The entire season is a playoff
Even after all that pro sports ball came to Seattle in the 70's the Huskies managed to remain top Dawg in the Emerald City well through the 1990s.
This was one of the unique things about the program that we've lost.
CFB: Still in it, moreso even now with kid "working" in it
NFL: Mid 2010s when RG3 sucked and Dan Snyder was never going to change, but still close to it due to fantasy and its the NFL
MLB: When the Orioles let Mussina go to the Yankees, came back for the 2019 Nats. Fully fairweather.
NHL: Still in it but fairweather for the Caps
NBA: The wizards will always suck so it is amusing
CBB: Fairweather Husky fan, but it is less interesting than it used to be
soccer: national level stuff only
Tennis: interest at all time high for me
MLB - Was never more than a casual Padres and Dodgers fan as a kid. Lost interest in the early 90s.
NBA - Died for me when Magic got HIV.
NFL - Dawgs displaced the Bolts as my favorite sports team in 1990. If they were still in San Diego I'd have more of an emotional attachment.
NHL - Meh.
There's something here. It certainly felt like UW football was much more part of the cultural fabric when I was growing up and before I left town in 2008. I get the vibe this has changed with programs in major cities the past couple of decades.
I think the demarcation line falls around the time of Todd Turner's hiring
As gay as soccer is, the euro leagues do it right with moving up and down between leagues. Fans get way more invested than arbitrary conferences/divisions and their respective rivalries.
The older I’ve got the less I care about sports in general. Enshittification to the max.
UWFootball…full commitment through Neu’s hiring, steady decline for Gilby / Ty, moderate enthusiasm with Sark (if only because he wasn’t Ty), genuinely jazzed over Pete…you couldn’t script the last 4 years. All of the talk about “getting back”, The game has moved on, and I guess I need to move with it, because it has changed so dramatically in such a short period…a work in progress…
NFL…During a mid 90’s playoff game, one of the heads said that “If Butkus or Nitschke were playing today, they would come out of the game on 3rd down for an extra DB”…it was a players league, and has become a coaches league…casual observer
NBA…Grew up on West, Wilt, Doc, and the Sonics. When Larry and Magic retired, I pretty much did too.
MLB…I’m a baseball guy, but it is getting harder to watch…three true outcomes and “Let the Kids Play” are hell on boomer baseball dudes…
NHL…Just starting out
I just don't understand how you could walk through the tailgating for the Michigan game, one of the major games the last couple years such as Oregon/Old Stanford and think that anything has changed much.
2008-10 I thought it was different because with Ty it was clear that they weren't trying.
But the only thing that seems to have changed to me is just the U-District, which pretends like cfb doesn't even exist, even on gamedays.
NFL: was always for fags
MLB: always for fags
NHL: season is too long, teams are too anonymous now when the playoffs start. Expansion is a turn off.
NBA: the players live and act like Kings and dress like they're fashion designers and it's a turn off for the fans. Still attend ~5-10 games a year and enjoy the playoffs.
CFB: ride or die
People forget that the NFL of the 80's and 90s was not ubiquitous, 900 lb gorilla that it is now. Once upon a time, a lot of games weren't sold out and thus blacked out for the local market.
Add in the rise of the NFL and much higher number of transplants with no UW connection, and UW will never be the hottest ticket in Seattle ever again.
That said, we should be selling out Husky Stadium for, at least, 3 or 4 home games a year at minimum.
NBA - Mostly when Gary Payton was traded. 5 years later the Sonics were poof, gone. The longer the NBA waits to bring a team back, the less likely I am going to be into it. I do watch the playoffs after they get to the conference semifinals. Echo the statements of others that lack of college hoops / euros has impacted who I even know in the league.
MLB - 2002, lost huge division lead, and I think the Angels won the division and series. I still go but I just can't get real motivated for 1 of 162 games. I'd shrink the MLB season by 1-2 months. Start it mid April and end in Mid September.
NFL - I'm still following but not quite like 10 years ago. Seahawks have done a good job of keeping the team, mostly competitive.
NHL - Kraken playoff run was fun two years ago. Didn't have root so I missed a lot of games. Tickets are astronomical.
MLS - Love the Sounders but honestly a bit turned off by the SJW / Antifa set of fans that brought politics into the stadium (TITTT). Had tickets (4 game packages) a couple years, but prices kept getting bumped up. Move to Apple TV has been brutal for my interest level. I mostly follow games on twitter or just rely on youtube highlights, which are helpful.
CFB: I'm fucking here, and losing my voice on Saturdays. Some days I may need to take a walk for perspective.
CMBB: I'm still a ticket holder, but attend much less frequently. B1G move actually makes it a bit more enticing. Transfer Portal and NBA rules have made it tough to follow / support players. Season starts in two weeks and I think I know 4 of the players?
This is accurate. I was actually going to say at least for now when you're at the stadium for a big game it feels the same. For now as long as UW is relatively special the atmosphere is there and especially if it's a big time opponent.
This could be because I don't work at an office, don't live in Seattle, and don't leave the psych ward a ton but I felt like the general casual awareness for UW is way down. I would say the Coug too. I'm sure that UW's downfall happened right when the Seahawks took off didn't help
Ken Behring
I'm not broken. I'm just strangely disinterested right now and am not sure if it's ever coming back.
Larry Scott and his Direct TV Fuck UP. No home games since then. That changes this year (two).
Went to the final P12 championship game.
Joining the B1G unbroke me.
This thread delivers.
I tend to think of my various sports fandoms like relationships:
CFB: Married, ‘til death do us part. Ride or die. Childhood sweethearts/first love. Been in couples counseling many times. Every time I threaten to leave, no one takes it seriously.
NFL: Long-term, on-again-off again relationship/broken engagement. Could’ve gone the distance, but we both changed too much. Still enjoy the occasional hookup.
NBA: High school crush that brutally ghosted me after I refused to sleep with them at prom and then got the next chick he went out with pregnant. Fuck them. MLB: Bitter divorce but are now civil and do a decent job co-parenting our kids. I enjoy my freedom and alimony checks, while he’s on his fifth wife, swearing “this time it’s different”. It never is.
NHL: Connected on a dating app with a Seattle guy. I didn’t feel there was any chemistry there, but everyone says “give him a chance”. At dinner he only talks about himself and hits on our waitress. I excuse myself to use the ladies room and don’t come back. End up hooking up with a hottie at the bar from Colorado. We now are FWB.
CMBB: Summer romance. Broke up when we both had to go back to school. Very fond memories. Still followed him on social media. Ran into him recently and he’s done the midlife crisis glow up. We exchanged numbers. Not sure I’ll call, as it would be a long distance thing…but he did look GOOD.
MLS: Almost forgot about him. Blind date/set up by friends. Zero chemistry. Last I heard he married a nice yoga instructor and they raise alpacas outside of Portland.
Chuck, What? You don't like 4 hour games and continuous Progressive and Geico commercials, paid players? College football does still exist, just not at FBS level.
When we(?) went fullblown Section14aFS and gave Ty a 4th year
I don't come here to express my lack of interest like you. That's stupid. Instead I keep trying to find some fucks to give. I just haven't.
