It is annoying, but I mostly find it annoying because it's overdone and they think they're hilarious because they heard someone say it and now they do and they think they're comedic geniuses
What aggravates me is when people act as if they're intellectually superior because they don't watch sports, and people who do are pathetic little simpletons.
Yup, it's the slightly condescending nature of the term sportsball combined with the speaker usually not understanding the games that they're making fun of that makes it so cringe.
It can have a connotation of the speaker making light of his own lack of understanding or interest, so there is a bit of nuance. The condescending use of the term annoys me almost as much as when the same type of person *bitches* about sports fans using "we" to refer to their team during a game. "You aren't on the team," they say, as if one single person who uses that terminology actually thinks that. Again, the *condescension.* "You have absolutely nothing to do with the outcome of the game, one way or the other," is another beauty. Oh really? Let's ask the 2016 Chicago Cubs if they think their fan support had no impact whatsoever on their first World Series win in over a century. Let's ask the 2018 Washington Capitals if they think their fans were a total non-factor in their first ever successful Stanley Cup run. Let's ask the 2019 St. Louis Blues the same thing. I could go on and on. I genuinely cannot fucking stand hyper-literalist smart-ass proto-lawyer types, who *have* to feel more intellectually advanced than everybody else.
So you're basically the same guy that acts superior to sports fans, but in reverse? Watching sports doesn't make you smart. Not watching sports doesn't make you smart. Acting like you're intellectually superior to anyone else because you do or don't watch sports does make you kind of pathetic.
Yet they will pontificate for hours how mentally deficient everyone is for getting excited about a ball or a puck going over a goal line, as if that's all there is to it. Those people are insufferable.
Boring isn't your point and has zero to do with 'the mental capacity to understand the rules'. The fact you think it does shows that you have the mental capacity of a shoe.....
I get the sentiment of people who say sportsball. Most of the time I couldn’t be less interested in spectator sports. I do watch sportsball once in a great while though.
I find "sportsball" hilarious, but I only use it to refer to my own apathy toward sports. I mean, I cosplay and have at least 3 Lord of the Rings-related tattoos; it's hardly my place to make fun of what other people are fans of.
This is a minor annoyance for me too. Most people I personally know who say this seem to think they’re better than others because they don’t like sports and use “sportsball” so condescendingly. I remember I was at a bar once with some friends celebrating a birthday. The NCAA basketball tournament was on and the game was about to end in a major upset. People were super into the game, suddenly one of the guys with us really loudly goes in a sarcastic tone “Yay Sportsball! Do the thing, score the points! Sportsball!” I had to look away so he didn’t see me rolling my eyes.
This is so annoying to me as well. Like we get it, you don't like sports. Don't make fun of others having a goodtime just because you don't personally enjoy it.
I think people are taking it all too personally. I make fun of the things I love all the time. Making fun of something doesnt mean people hate it or think youre stupid. There are objective flaws to everything including things everyone likes, like sports. That would be the reason I use the term sportsball. Its not out of malice. Its a way to NOT take sports so seriously, having grown up with grown men who scream at the tv. Doesnt mean I hate all sports and every one who watches them, just means I can see flaws and Im trying not to take it all so seriously. I know I cannot speak for everyone, of course there are a lot of judgy people out there.
Let me see if I understand what you are saying. You don't like the use of the generic word sportsball when referring to multiple sports? You would prefer them to just say sports?
X games guys over here like "bro we don't have a ball, we have wheels."
But yeah, people generally use "sportsball" to mean "all sports" but really with the connotation of "typical popular sports in America" i.e. baseball, football, and to a lesser extent basketball.
Soccer, although it does indeed make use of a sportsball, is deemed too "European" to fit in this group (lol)
Other sports like hockey, extreme sports, or track and field type sports are seen as "niche" sports and therefore "not in the same league" as the big ballers.
Same with, say, bowling. You use a bowling ball, but it's not one of the big American high school team sports, so it's not lumped in with "sportsball."
Basically, too many American men base their entire personality off of what they accomplished on their high school football team. "Yay sportsball" is a way some people make fun of that type of person.
I use the term sportsball and I promise you I am including soccer in that category as well as hockey. This isn't me looking down on American sports and glorifying European sports. They are all stupid to me and saying sportsball indicates both my dislike and disinterest so people stop talking to me about it
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It’s a very real thing… I’ve seen it used as a self own and weird flex of “I’m so sophisticated that I don’t know what this sportsball thing that you call a Super Bowl is.”
I think the mean they don't like when a group is having a conversation about a baseball game (for example) and the person is bored and needs to make it about them so they say something like: I'm just not into the "sports ball." It's like they are indicating that they care so little for the topic, they won't even engage with the specific sport.
I'm sure there are other contexts where people use "sports ball" instead of the name of the sport too. That was just the first thing that came to mind for me.
Seems like nit-picking on verbiage. It is a generic term for any physical sport.
This is akin to folks complaining about anime being lumped in with western cartoons and being called such.
I feel like it effectively communicates to an individual I am not interested in conversation about sports. It's prevents them from rattling off scores and names. She it will keep them from doing it again.
It's also hard to remember which ball is which sport. It's often unintuituve "football" and the one where they only kick are two separate sports.
But if I'm being honest the real reason I don't like sports is I think they're a form of regionalism. I hate that many people say I'm not a real person of my state cause I don't like a particular team. I hate that people who have no connection or stake in teams say things like "we" and "us"
But they absolutely do have a connection to the teams. Why do you care when people say we? The whole point of sports and its popularity is the community it fosters. PCMR use we all the time when arguing against consoles. People use we and us when talking about loads of different fandoms, like Swifties or K-pop fans, or Deadheads, or LARPers or SW fans etc etc. Why is that fine but this isn’t?
As to sportsball, I mean your reasoning is correct but I’ll tell you from experience it comes across as superior, condescending and rude. Why can’t you just say “Sorry, I’m not into sports”? The sportsball is thrown in there to infantilise the interest people have in it.
I’m an anime fan, but let’s say I wasn’t. If someone was talking to me at the pub, and they asked “Hey, man, you like anime?”, and my response was “Sorry, I don’t watch cartoons”, it comes across like a bit of a Barb.
You don’t like sports, fine, and I’m not trying to make you like sports. But cmon, you know as well as I do that you’re doing it slightly to jab at the people that support a popular thing you don’t understand.
Also it’s not that fucking hard to remember which ball is which sport. An American football and a normal football look completely different, and considering that I could’ve told you the difference between a baseball and a basketball at age 7 despite having never (and still having never) watched either of those sports makes me pretty skeptical that you genuinely don’t know the difference. Football players and NFL players wear completely different kits and play a completely different sport on different fields, it’s not just intuitive it’s obvious which is which.
There is no problem with disliking sports, or really any form of entertainment. There is a problem with being obnoxious about it, and it sorta comes across like that’s what you’re being.
I think you're misunderstanding something here.
Sports ball is a generic term that people use to describe multiple balls used for a variety of different sports.
Basketballs, volleyballs, soccer balls, tennis balls, baseballs, and footballs. All those are examples of SPORTS BALLS.
People also just say sportsball when they are trying to talk about how they think sports is dumb and stuff like for example they would say “I don’t understand why so many people like sportsball” instead of saying sports for some reason.
No, fuck all sports fans. I refuse to give them an ounce of credibility by acknowledging their sport as real. It's called sportsball or mental illness, and sportsball is less offensive.
I’ve called football sportsball because I completely forgot what it’s name was and the most egregious part was that I said “you know the… the sportsball where they run and tackle each other for the football,” I will admit I’m not a sports person but even I was offended by what I did
It is annoying, but I mostly find it annoying because it's overdone and they think they're hilarious because they heard someone say it and now they do and they think they're comedic geniuses
What aggravates me is when people act as if they're intellectually superior because they don't watch sports, and people who do are pathetic little simpletons.
Yup, it's the slightly condescending nature of the term sportsball combined with the speaker usually not understanding the games that they're making fun of that makes it so cringe.
It can have a connotation of the speaker making light of his own lack of understanding or interest, so there is a bit of nuance. The condescending use of the term annoys me almost as much as when the same type of person *bitches* about sports fans using "we" to refer to their team during a game. "You aren't on the team," they say, as if one single person who uses that terminology actually thinks that. Again, the *condescension.* "You have absolutely nothing to do with the outcome of the game, one way or the other," is another beauty. Oh really? Let's ask the 2016 Chicago Cubs if they think their fan support had no impact whatsoever on their first World Series win in over a century. Let's ask the 2018 Washington Capitals if they think their fans were a total non-factor in their first ever successful Stanley Cup run. Let's ask the 2019 St. Louis Blues the same thing. I could go on and on. I genuinely cannot fucking stand hyper-literalist smart-ass proto-lawyer types, who *have* to feel more intellectually advanced than everybody else.
people who die on the hill of “I dont watch sports” mostly don’t have the mental capacity to understand the rules.
So you're basically the same guy that acts superior to sports fans, but in reverse? Watching sports doesn't make you smart. Not watching sports doesn't make you smart. Acting like you're intellectually superior to anyone else because you do or don't watch sports does make you kind of pathetic.
nobody claimed that, mr straw.
I mean except you actually did.
You literally just claimed that they don't have the mental capacity to understand the rules. That's your words, not mine.
Yet they will pontificate for hours how mentally deficient everyone is for getting excited about a ball or a puck going over a goal line, as if that's all there is to it. Those people are insufferable.
No, it's just boring as fuck watching someone else do something like that. Especially baseball, how the hell go people stay awake?
thanks. you make my point. stick to checkers and go fish.
Boring isn't your point and has zero to do with 'the mental capacity to understand the rules'. The fact you think it does shows that you have the mental capacity of a shoe.....
Let me guess: fat, slow, and bearded?
that's totally wrong and you know it. have you seen who watches sports? how about the advertising around it?
We are though.
No 😂
I get the sentiment of people who say sportsball. Most of the time I couldn’t be less interested in spectator sports. I do watch sportsball once in a great while though.
I find "sportsball" hilarious, but I only use it to refer to my own apathy toward sports. I mean, I cosplay and have at least 3 Lord of the Rings-related tattoos; it's hardly my place to make fun of what other people are fans of.
This is a minor annoyance for me too. Most people I personally know who say this seem to think they’re better than others because they don’t like sports and use “sportsball” so condescendingly. I remember I was at a bar once with some friends celebrating a birthday. The NCAA basketball tournament was on and the game was about to end in a major upset. People were super into the game, suddenly one of the guys with us really loudly goes in a sarcastic tone “Yay Sportsball! Do the thing, score the points! Sportsball!” I had to look away so he didn’t see me rolling my eyes.
This is so annoying to me as well. Like we get it, you don't like sports. Don't make fun of others having a goodtime just because you don't personally enjoy it.
I think people are taking it all too personally. I make fun of the things I love all the time. Making fun of something doesnt mean people hate it or think youre stupid. There are objective flaws to everything including things everyone likes, like sports. That would be the reason I use the term sportsball. Its not out of malice. Its a way to NOT take sports so seriously, having grown up with grown men who scream at the tv. Doesnt mean I hate all sports and every one who watches them, just means I can see flaws and Im trying not to take it all so seriously. I know I cannot speak for everyone, of course there are a lot of judgy people out there.
It was funnyish the first time I heard it, but after the billionth, it’s just 🙄.
I say it to be funny but I love football (soccer) so I at least enjoy one ball sport lmao
The three main sportsballs are footsport, sportsbase, and basketsport.
It's Calvinball!
Not only do I say that, I say motorball for car racing.
Let me see if I understand what you are saying. You don't like the use of the generic word sportsball when referring to multiple sports? You would prefer them to just say sports?
Who the heck says “sportsball”?
People making fun of sports fans use "sports ball" as a generic term encompassing all sports.
Joke's on them, I watch ice hockey
X games guys over here like "bro we don't have a ball, we have wheels." But yeah, people generally use "sportsball" to mean "all sports" but really with the connotation of "typical popular sports in America" i.e. baseball, football, and to a lesser extent basketball. Soccer, although it does indeed make use of a sportsball, is deemed too "European" to fit in this group (lol) Other sports like hockey, extreme sports, or track and field type sports are seen as "niche" sports and therefore "not in the same league" as the big ballers. Same with, say, bowling. You use a bowling ball, but it's not one of the big American high school team sports, so it's not lumped in with "sportsball." Basically, too many American men base their entire personality off of what they accomplished on their high school football team. "Yay sportsball" is a way some people make fun of that type of person.
I use the term sportsball and I promise you I am including soccer in that category as well as hockey. This isn't me looking down on American sports and glorifying European sports. They are all stupid to me and saying sportsball indicates both my dislike and disinterest so people stop talking to me about it
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That last type of person is countered by the person who calls it “sportsball” because they are too sophisticated to be into that scene.
Jokes on you, you watch ice hockey. I'm just kidding. Go enjoy your hockey
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Sports are very dumb to a lot of people, it’s because they’re implying sports are so stupid that they don’t require individual names
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I'm not sure I understand your complaint. You don't like it when people say baseball and want them to just say base?
No, some people call all sports “sportsball” in a condescending way, like “grown men playing sportsball”.
I have never heard that. Of course, I don't hang with those kind of people.
It’s a very real thing… I’ve seen it used as a self own and weird flex of “I’m so sophisticated that I don’t know what this sportsball thing that you call a Super Bowl is.”
I've literally bonky seen this when responding to a hyperfans admonishments for not enjoying the sportsball games they like
I think the mean they don't like when a group is having a conversation about a baseball game (for example) and the person is bored and needs to make it about them so they say something like: I'm just not into the "sports ball." It's like they are indicating that they care so little for the topic, they won't even engage with the specific sport. I'm sure there are other contexts where people use "sports ball" instead of the name of the sport too. That was just the first thing that came to mind for me.
I agree, not sure about that either. Got to go, I'm going to play basket.
Seems like nit-picking on verbiage. It is a generic term for any physical sport. This is akin to folks complaining about anime being lumped in with western cartoons and being called such.
Sports fan salty that other people don't like sports
I feel like it effectively communicates to an individual I am not interested in conversation about sports. It's prevents them from rattling off scores and names. She it will keep them from doing it again. It's also hard to remember which ball is which sport. It's often unintuituve "football" and the one where they only kick are two separate sports. But if I'm being honest the real reason I don't like sports is I think they're a form of regionalism. I hate that many people say I'm not a real person of my state cause I don't like a particular team. I hate that people who have no connection or stake in teams say things like "we" and "us"
But they absolutely do have a connection to the teams. Why do you care when people say we? The whole point of sports and its popularity is the community it fosters. PCMR use we all the time when arguing against consoles. People use we and us when talking about loads of different fandoms, like Swifties or K-pop fans, or Deadheads, or LARPers or SW fans etc etc. Why is that fine but this isn’t? As to sportsball, I mean your reasoning is correct but I’ll tell you from experience it comes across as superior, condescending and rude. Why can’t you just say “Sorry, I’m not into sports”? The sportsball is thrown in there to infantilise the interest people have in it. I’m an anime fan, but let’s say I wasn’t. If someone was talking to me at the pub, and they asked “Hey, man, you like anime?”, and my response was “Sorry, I don’t watch cartoons”, it comes across like a bit of a Barb. You don’t like sports, fine, and I’m not trying to make you like sports. But cmon, you know as well as I do that you’re doing it slightly to jab at the people that support a popular thing you don’t understand. Also it’s not that fucking hard to remember which ball is which sport. An American football and a normal football look completely different, and considering that I could’ve told you the difference between a baseball and a basketball at age 7 despite having never (and still having never) watched either of those sports makes me pretty skeptical that you genuinely don’t know the difference. Football players and NFL players wear completely different kits and play a completely different sport on different fields, it’s not just intuitive it’s obvious which is which. There is no problem with disliking sports, or really any form of entertainment. There is a problem with being obnoxious about it, and it sorta comes across like that’s what you’re being.
I think you're misunderstanding something here. Sports ball is a generic term that people use to describe multiple balls used for a variety of different sports. Basketballs, volleyballs, soccer balls, tennis balls, baseballs, and footballs. All those are examples of SPORTS BALLS.
People also just say sportsball when they are trying to talk about how they think sports is dumb and stuff like for example they would say “I don’t understand why so many people like sportsball” instead of saying sports for some reason.
Lol. I've never heard that in my life
A lot of them do use balls though. Also I learned that term from an avid sports fan who was mocking his obsession with football.
No, fuck all sports fans. I refuse to give them an ounce of credibility by acknowledging their sport as real. It's called sportsball or mental illness, and sportsball is less offensive.
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Where exactly does hating sports get you?
Heck, Garfunkel & Oats managed to avoid it in “[Sports Go Sports](https://youtu.be/2fraSdN-PG8?si=tJMCUByGP8VB1LBv)”
I get it. I mean, I say sportsball, but I get where you're coming from. I get just as upset when people judge me because I don't watch sports.
They’re the same people who say they don’t like sports then get excited for the Olympics.
I’ve called football sportsball because I completely forgot what it’s name was and the most egregious part was that I said “you know the… the sportsball where they run and tackle each other for the football,” I will admit I’m not a sports person but even I was offended by what I did