Admittedly, Patriots.win has way more users, there's a bit more energy over there, and they're more up-to-date with new habbenings as they come. It's also an amazing place to find memes.
But the ANXIETY there is off the chart. That's what I love about this place. Most of us here actually believe that nothing can stop what is coming, and that God wins in the end, so we're really pretty calm.
I'm a big sports fan. After many years I came to a realization that I never really enjoyed winning that much. I just hating losing so badly that winning was a relief. A win just meant I could relax a few more days until the next game, where we might lose again.
it wreaked havoc on my emotional state. The right loss could literally ruin a whole week for me. I'd be screaming out for joy one minute, then screaming at my sisters to get out of the living room cause they were bad luck the next minute. I was a monster watching games live.
So one day I decided I wasn't going to watch the games of my favorite teams live anymore. When the outcome is up in the air, everything that happens until the end of the game is just too stress-inducing. I decided just to wait and see who won. If we lost, I wouldn't bother watching. Without the details of the game burned into my brain the sting of the loss didn't hurt so bad or last so long.
I'd only watch if we won. At first I thought this would be boring, but on the contrary, it was awesome. Since I already knew we won I could truly relish every moment. When the other team scored I wouldn't get upset, cause I was basically just watching a movie. I could literally sit and eat popcorn and just enjoy it. It was like "Oh so THAT'S how we won this game..." for 90 minutes instead of chewing on my fingernails.
Over here, we believe that nothing can stop what is coming. We believe that at the end of this movie, God wins. We believe there's a plan, and that the drama that we see will have twists and turns, but that nothing is always what it seems, so we relax, keep an open mind, and explore different ways of looking at things rather than freaking out all the time.
I feel sorry for the guys over on the other site. I know what it's like to have an outcome, and one as critical as the fate of our country, and even the world, up in the air. Hell I can't hardly stand it when it's only sports. But here, we believe that we know how this movie ends. We walk by faith, not by sight. And that's just a better way to live your life if you ask me.
There's no question that refs can be influenced in a variety of ways that can impact games. I'm not questioning that. But I come from the days before instant replay and all I can say is that it happens WAY less now than it used to. Sunlight is a disinfectant. Instant replay has done wonders for the integrity of sports in my humble opinion. I very rarely feel like the refs were what blew it for my team anymore.
I agree with you on that.
The areas I see the most likely occurrences are when refs make judgment calls. Football and basketball are the usual suspects. For instance, offensive lineman hold on every play, they are trained to do so. The key is to stop holding before you are caught or the player is getting past you. But refs really can make a judgment call on almost any play. These are 10 yard penalties so they are a big deal. In basketball there are plenty of judgment calls. Charging and blocking is pretty easy to go either way. In the NBA, they pretty much mug each other constantly on every play, so the judgment call can go either way.
Again, not saying every game is rigged or that all refs rig. I think my main point is that given the widespread cheating, fraud, and lawlessness we see in the country right now all over the place, cheating in sports would be nothing at all compared to those things and it is more likely to occur because lying, cheating, and stealing is absolutely rampant all over the place now.
I love the idea of sports and have loved playing them.
Before BLM slapping equality stickers on jerseys, painted floors with BLM BS, and switched the national anthem for the black national anthem, sports was one of the few apolitical areas in our lives where we could "go to get away from it all."
Now, they've even stolen that from us.
Couldn't agree more on the woke bullshit. But I've noticed that they've softened on that recently somewhat, likely in response to the horrible ratings they started having. These companies for so long have been fed the lie that wokeism is the future. They think they have to be sensitive to liberal causes or face the consequences, but "go woke, go broke" has been proving the truth and many seem to be setting a new course lately. As the Elon/Twitter debacle is starting to show, conservatives are still the vast majority in this country. All these execs have been sold on the propaganda that most twitter users, the loud obnoxious ones who can hurt your bottom line, are liberals. Turns out there were mostly bots. That right there I believe is going to go a long way toward these companies changing their tactics. Will be interesting next month to see which companies are the first to gather the balls not to post their logo as a rainbow all month long. That might be a decent litmus test for where we're heading.
All great thoughts u/tobeselfevident👈🏻
Thanks for sharing!