Anyone here ever think about giving up watching sports?

TPIPER36

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I swear MSU is so frustrating to watch that I just want to give up watching all sports. It’s been 25 years of headaches over 19 year old kids playing a game. Some people just become a bandwagon fan. That ain’t for me. I’ll never be a bandwagon fan I was born to love Mississippi State. At the end of the day it’s better for my health to not even watch anymore lol
 

TPIPER36

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We also lost to UT, UF, and other UT in the most heartbreaking dramatic MSU fashion. Now the only thing I have to look forward to is a basketball team that will get my hopes up only to lose in the first round of the tournament.
 

OopsICroomedmypants

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I'm 47 and have been a state fan all my life. I quit watching the NBA not long after Larry Bird and Michael Jordan retired. I quit watching baseball after the Braves lost Glavin, Smoltz and Maddux. I loved watching the MSU football, basketball and baseball teams of the 90's and I enjoyed Mullen and the Pirate. These days I still cheer hard for the football team, but I don't get upset as much when they lose. Every game I tell myself I just won't care, but I can't stop myself. MSU football is the only sport I hang on tight to.
 

mstateglfr

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We also lost to UT, UF, and other UT in the most heartbreaking dramatic MSU fashion. Now the only thing I have to look forward to is a basketball team that will get my hopes up only to lose in the first round of the tournament.
OK yeah, those sucked to watch.
They were more 'wt17?! Damn!' type of reactions...and then I went about the rest of my days.

Disconnect emotionally as much as possible.
 
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bulldoghair

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The Indiana and Vanderbilt games were great. Crooms and Lebs would never make me give up watching sports in general. That’s crazy.
 

mstateglfr

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I'm 47 and have been a state fan all my life. I quit watching the NBA not long after Larry Bird and Michael Jordan retired. I quit watching baseball after the Braves lost Glavin, Smoltz and Maddux.
You arent retirement age?
 
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lazlow

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I swear MSU is so frustrating to watch that I just want to give up watching all sports. It’s been 25 years of headaches over 19 year old kids playing a game. Some people just become a bandwagon fan. That ain’t for me. I’ll never be a bandwagon fan I was born to love Mississippi State. At the end of the day it’s better for my health to not even watch anymore lol
well its bad enough that you take one on the chin like we did today, then you turn to abc and see where bama has one 17ing penality in the 4th qtr.
 
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60sdog

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I'm 47 and have been a state fan all my life. I quit watching the NBA not long after Larry Bird and Michael Jordan retired. I quit watching baseball after the Braves lost Glavin, Smoltz and Maddux. I loved watching the MSU football, basketball and baseball teams of the 90's and I enjoyed Mullen and the Pirate. These days I still cheer hard for the football team, but I don't get upset as much when they lose. Every game I tell myself I just won't care, but I can't stop myself. MSU football is the only sport I hang on tight to.
These college sports can easily become a God to someone. The first commandment. I have been guilty of it also but I am working on it and praying about it.
 

Crazy Cotton

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I think about it this way - as a State fan, we're going to be underdogs in 99% of our games against SEC teams, so I should expect that we lose most of them. But every now and then we get one, and I get to experience something an Alabama or Georgia fan never does - an underdog playing over their head and taking down goliath. We had 4 chances this year where we played over our heads, and we got one of them.

so I pull for my dogs.
 

M R DAWGS

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We just got our asses whooped today. It just goes to show that we aren’t even close to competing with the real teams.

Absolutely dominated on every level.

Tenn, Fla, and Texas, if we were at least competent, we would have won. Those games were basically gifted to us and we couldn’t take it.

Georgia took us to the whipping post. Absolutely kicked our *** physically.
 

BreckyBratt

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I'm 47 and have been a state fan all my life. I quit watching the NBA not long after Larry Bird and Michael Jordan retired. I quit watching baseball after the Braves lost Glavin, Smoltz and Maddux. I loved watching the MSU football, basketball and baseball teams of the 90's and I enjoyed Mullen and the Pirate. These days I still cheer hard for the football team, but I don't get upset as much when they lose. Every game I tell myself I just won't care, but I can't stop myself. MSU football is the only sport I hang on tight to.
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BreckyBratt

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I thought he was older than he is.
Your reply is odd.
I'm in the same age bracket as him. You're the one with the odd reply. Most grown men that support their families don't get to check out early and be little socialist dipshits their grown up lives.
 

mstateglfr

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I'm in the same age bracket as him. You're the one with the odd reply. Most grown men that support their families don't get to check out early and be little socialist dipshits their grown up lives.
What in the 17 are you talking about?
I am 44 and work full time. I have a part time job too. I am in the same age bracket.

I was surprised the poster was that young. I thought he was much older, based on many comments thru the last couple years.

I have no idea what you think my dream world is or why you are posting about little socialist dipshits.
 

BreckyBratt

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What in the 17 are you talking about?
I am 44 and work full time. I have a part time job too. I am in the same age bracket.

I was surprised the poster was that young. I thought he was much older, based on many comments thru the last couple years.

I have no idea what you think my dream world is or why you are posting about little socialist dipshits.
Bruh you are the epitome of my post. You should move to NYC and live in your fantasy land. Take goat with you!!
 

mstateglfr

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Bruh you are the epitome of my post. You should move to NYC and live in your fantasy land. Take goat with you!!
I said I was surprised another poster isnt older.

You then ranted at me about how real men have to work, don't get to retire early, and don't get to be socialist dipshits. You then told me to move to NYC.

Again, I was surprised another poster is younger than I figured.
 

L4Dawg

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I swear MSU is so frustrating to watch that I just want to give up watching all sports. It’s been 25 years of headaches over 19 year old kids playing a game. Some people just become a bandwagon fan. That ain’t for me. I’ll never be a bandwagon fan I was born to love Mississippi State. At the end of the day it’s better for my health to not even watch anymore lol
Oh grow up, 25 years….you haven’t even seen the worst.
 

BreckyBratt

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I said I was surprised another poster isnt older.

You then ranted at me about how real men have to work, don't get to retire early, and don't get to be socialist dipshits. You then told me to move to NYC.

Again, I was surprised another poster is younger than I figured
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L4Dawg

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Oh grow up, 25 years….you haven’t even seen the worst.
Neither have I, in my 50+ years as a MSU man. I grew up looking up to people who had seen it though. We as a fanbase need to grow a pair. Those guys had them for sure.
 
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I swear MSU is so frustrating to watch that I just want to give up watching all sports. It’s been 25 years of headaches over 19 year old kids playing a game. Some people just become a bandwagon fan. That ain’t for me. I’ll never be a bandwagon fan I was born to love Mississippi State. At the end of the day it’s better for my health to not even watch anymore lol
Again I’m late to the party like a lot of times but here’s how I feel. I can’t help but love Mississippi State it’s been that way since I was old enough to understand sports. Ingrained deep in me. Definitely can be frustrating but as close as we are to only having 2 losses this season however you look at it. I do see a brighter football future I mean it’s been an injury plagued year all over the team. The Oline injuries/can’t block shite also the fact that if and when which I hope is next year earlies will make all the difference or a lot at least. Then look at the defensive stars we are without, I know it’s a next man up thing but that next man up either has the talent for sec matchups or doesn’t usually doesn’t so my point is we aren’t deep enough like a team like Georgia etc you get the point. Losing people like Whitson etc etc isn’t a thing we can sustain like UGA, Bama because our backups aren’t on or near the same level. However I think we build depth and get much better by next year. Notice I didn’t say who the coach should be or shouldn’t. Has nothing to do with my point. We should have a pretty decent maybe even good Basketball team still remains to be seen and our baseball team under Coach Oak is just snatching talent up with a coaching staff that can develop them as well. I honestly look forward to this years baseball squad. They gone be good! Sorry for the ramblings ******* up with heart problems afraid to go to sleep at the moment.
 
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HammerOfTheDogs

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I swear MSU is so frustrating to watch that I just want to give up watching all sports. It’s been 25 years of headaches over 19 year old kids playing a game. Some people just become a bandwagon fan. That ain’t for me. I’ll never be a bandwagon fan I was born to love Mississippi State. At the end of the day it’s better for my health to not even watch anymore lol
I went to my grand nephew's 3rd birthday party. His grandfather (my brother) has dementia, but he had a good day yesterday.

The last thing I was worried about was whether a bunch of 19 year olds (who will probably enter the transfer portal anyway) could beat another group of 19 year olds.
 

BulldogBlitz

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Im on a 50 year plan. I gave up watching bowling.

I gave up watching figure skating.

I gave up watching skiing.

I did get a big one and stopped with the nfl.
 

Hugh's Burner Phone

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I'm 51. Been a MSU fan my whole life. Growing up my dad was a huge Saints fan and some how I became a Falcons fan. When we played each other it became the most heated, but fun game days. We were also both Brave's fans. But I lost my dad 22 years ago today. After that I started losing my interest in the NFL. After the Braves went down I started to lose my interest in them. All I had left was MSU and I set my schedule around when they played. When they went to **** I still watched, though. But then over the course of the last few years I had several things happen. I ended up losing the rest of my grandparents and then my mom this past February. My wife also lost her parents and grandparents. This will be our first holiday season without all of them. Then you throw in a couple of big health scares for me and what truly important becomes clear in life. And it's not a bunch of 18 year olds making way more money than me running around on a field every Saturday. It's enjoying every second I have with my family and making sure they're set when it's my turn to change sides of the grass. It's working on our chase team's camera network to get it statewide to try and save lives so other families aren't torn apart prematurely. I still love MSU sports and always will. I just refuse to get upset when they lose and sulk about it for the next three days like I used to. Because in the words of Red...IMG_9579.gif
 

Maroon13

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I'm 52. I decided on that fateful day of Nov 1, 1980 that State was my team. Dad went and worked at State. Mom's side were all from Alabama. I still have relatives in Tuscaloosa. I despised Alabama as a kid and young person. Like any state fan. As I've gotten older Ive grown to respect and admire their accomplishments.

Then I grew older and watched enough of this football to know ... it isn't dead injuns, or refs... it's resources plain and simple that limits schools like MSU and allows other schools to attract the talent necessary. Hell we can't even get the best Starkville kids to come to State. Anyways, I really worry about the future of State with nil, and the ever evolving landscape of college football. Do we have the funds to buy enough OL and DL?

So as I've grown older I've begun to pull for Alabama and found myself each year getting more and more invested in them. Especially with saban leaving and everyone talking about that won't be good. They fit that underdog role, in a way. I went to the UTN/Bama game this year.... It was fun. I don't have the emotions for them as State. But...they were a team to watch last night and a team to follow in the playoffs.

I do have a senior at msu. I'm sure when She leaves we will cut back on games and etc. I love Mississippi State University but.... I'm afraid college football has just gotten to the point that the money is too much for us to compete. I hope Lebby, Selmon and Kenum prove me wrong on that.
 
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dudehead

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I swear MSU is so frustrating to watch that I just want to give up watching all sports. It’s been 25 years of headaches over 19 year old kids playing a game. Some people just become a bandwagon fan. That ain’t for me. I’ll never be a bandwagon fan I was born to love Mississippi State. At the end of the day it’s better for my health to not even watch anymore lol
"You have a right to perform your prescribed duties, but you are not entitled to the fruits of your actions."
 

leeinator

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We also lost to UT, UF, and other UT in the most heartbreaking dramatic MSU fashion. Now the only thing I have to look forward to is a basketball team that will get my hopes up only to lose in the first round of the tournament.
My MSU sports priorities are:

Football 5%
Basketball 5%
Baseball 90%

My season hasn't started yet, so I stay relatively calm until then.
 

ckDOG

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I swear MSU is so frustrating to watch that I just want to give up watching all sports. It’s been 25 years of headaches over 19 year old kids playing a game. Some people just become a bandwagon fan. That ain’t for me. I’ll never be a bandwagon fan I was born to love Mississippi State. At the end of the day it’s better for my health to not even watch anymore lol
I have your solution.