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Anonymous
Anonymous asked in SportsFootball (American) · 8 years ago

Do most football fans have low intelligence?

I just don't understand all the seemingly idiotic things that football fans do, such as.

1. Getting overly excited. Yelling at their TV's. Yelling at the top of their lungs at stadiums, intentionally trying to be as loud and rowdy as possible, etc. Don't get me wrong, I can enjoy watching a game of football, and appreciate the game in an intelligent fashion. I've never once felt the need to go crazy and scream my head off and act like a retarded wild animal. Other sports fans such as golf fans can also intelligently watch their game in a well behaved manner. Are football fans mostly just of low intelligence, and that's why they act like wild baboons? Or is there some other explanation?

2. So many football fans seem like idiots the way they support their team. Most of them do not make an intelligent choice as to who is their favorite, they just automatically default to whoever their local team is. They paint and even tattoo their bodies with their team logo, they throw big parties just to get drunk and yell about how good their default favorite team is, and how bad whatever the other team is. They talk about their team all season long, like their life revolves around their default favorite. Myself, I can enjoy the qualities of any team, and it doesn't matter who wins, I can intelligently enjoy the game which takes place, without even the need for favorites. So why do most go absolutely wild like maniacs when their team wins, and practically riot and get so angry when their team looses. Is it simply a matter of low intelligence on average? Or something else?

Update:

Edit, most answers so far have been hostile. Not trying to troll or be offensive, just trying to understand what doesn't make sense to me.

Perhaps I am too judgemental? I don't know. I don't have very good social skills. But thats beside the point. I just don't understand this.

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  • ?
    Lv 7
    8 years ago
    Favorite Answer

    There are some.. Especially those that stalk little female football players, lives off their parents and stays in their basement, and claims to have been a wide receiver for the Philadelphia Blaze... Lol....

    Source(s): RT.....
  • ?
    Lv 4
    5 years ago

    Many Man United fans don't remember the first two seasons Fergie took over. He was on the verge of getting sacked for doing such a bad job. Yeah, in our opinion (being Man Utd fans) he is the best manager football has ever had. It won't be easy for the next manager to walk into the job. Yet i think David Moyes is a great manager, consistent, proven in the Premier League. With the right transfer budget and assistance for the first season or two, i think he could do amazing things with United. You have to remember, many of the United fans on here have supported Man United all their life, and only known Fergie as manager. It's a shock and will be in the mindset that no manager is good enough. Cheers.

  • 8 years ago

    I am a former high school, collegiate and minor league football player. Even played some ball overseas. have had Patriots season tickets since 2001 the year I stopped playing organized ball. I get pretty passionate when watching games. Now I sit at a desk in a finance company working with extremely high net worth individuals, own a home, wife, two kids, ohhh, and I am the founder and president of a non profit organization.

    I think you're right....I fit the mold of what you are describing.

    Ohh, and my friend I have season tickets with is the executive vice president of a global asset management solutions company

    Thanks for the insult though dick$hine

  • 8 years ago

    Seriously time to stop being the shy quiet person who kept to themselves back then, time for you to experience the world around you. Man up sport. Being a football fan shouldn't say a thing about anyone's intelligence.

  • Bart
    Lv 6
    8 years ago

    You're not one yourself, so that explains why you don't get it. They're passionate about their favorite team. I don't think throwing one's remote and being angry qualifies as "rioting". Also, I don't understand how you could question intelligence, but misspell the word "loses" just the sentence prior.

  • 8 years ago

    i feel like this is more of an culture thing that we adapted to, yes i agree, it does look like ppl have no class when they do it but just footbal in the us l is and always been the most popular so ofcourse theres always going to be drunk fans, but tv has made football even more popular.

    Source(s): my dad is a football fan and does yell at the tv but he is a teacher and an educator and has been teaching for over 20 years
  • ?
    Lv 6
    8 years ago

    "Are football fans mostly just of low intelligence, and that's why they act like wild baboons?"

    Friggin racist!

  • gary w
    Lv 5
    8 years ago

    i guess you dont like football, lets leave it at that. whats your favorite team? oh u dont have one, cause your a stupid offending idiot who probably does not watch football. you probably watch dancing with the stars and get all excited,, he he he he

  • 8 years ago

    Still coddling the ole nut sack, time for your Momma to cut you off.

  • ?
    Lv 7
    8 years ago

    No but all American Football section trolls do.

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