I have a friend who only got into watching sports for the nerdish side (and he knows it). If he's not obsessing over stats and managing a fantasy team, he doesn't care.
Hopefully I'm not echoing someone else, but there are. They go by the (awful) label of 'Foodies.'Kristoffer Mattila said:In my language, (swe) sport nerds ARE called sport nerds. So is everyone else.
Music nerds
History nerds
You name it
with the exception of maybe cooking nerds. Never heard that one
And what's so significant about that? One takes imagination and one requires you to sit on your ass and watch games? Either way, you're not really doing anything except following something, so it's not like revering something real is particularly better.laxduck said:I didn't read the whole thread, but I read the first and last pages and let me just make one point that seems to elude the lot of you.
Sports are real. The stadiums are real. The teams are real.
Star Trek is fiction. The ship is fictional. The crew is fictional.
So when someone throws on a Brady jersey, call it a costume if you want, they're still dressing up as a real person. When someone throws on a Star Trek costume they are establishing themselves as being invested in a fictional universe. Captain Picard doesn't exist, Patrick Stewart does.
How the hell that escaped everyone else I can't explain except that they don't want to recognize it.
And to all the people who get off on yelling that sports fans that refer to their team as "us" or "we", most sports organizations like to encourage that kind of attitude and thought. Not, none of those fans are ever going to play for the team, but their attitude towards the team affects what the team does. A team with an involved and enthusiastic fan base will tend to have higher attendance, which leads to higher revenues, which leads to the organization spending more money on talent, which leads to a better team and better results. Because of this chain organizations want fans to feel like a part of the organization and refer to the team as a whole as "theirs".
Yes, sports nerds are nerds. As someone who loves sports I know, I call people sports nerds and have been called one on more than one occasion. But don't act like sports nerds are so similar to sci-fi/video game nerds. Real world vs. fiction world(s) makes a big difference. By your moronic logic anyone who is involved with anything is just like sci-fi/video game nerds. Political activists, people who are ridiculously into music, art fanatics, etc. The difference, once again, is that all those things are real. And I just talked to my roommate about this and he said "Well comic books are real" to which I reply that the subject matter of the comic books is not real. If you want to stick by your guns that having a real medium for a fictional world is comparable to having something in the real world then that's your right but to me that doesn't add up.
TL;DR The difference between sci-fi/video game nerds and other kinds of nerds are that other kinds of nerds focus on things that are real, sci-fi/video game nerds focus on fictional universes.
To me there is a difference in something being real. The fact that it actually exists means something. The fact that a fictional universe is not real means something. To you that does not mean anything. You have the right to that opinion. But the fact of the matter is that it is still a difference. The fact one is real and one is not is a difference between the two. I can place value in that difference, thereby explaining my belief in the difference between the two.Hairetos said:And what's so significant about that? One takes imagination and one requires you to sit on your ass and watch games? Either way, you're not really doing anything except following something, so it's not like revering something real is particularly better.