Welcome to Deadspin’s The Sports Nihilist, the place all is for naught and we’re however unintentional jolts of electrified meat caught to the floor of a rock in an detached universe. Fuck you.
Super Bowl LVII is the newest proof that sports activities followers actually shouldn’t imagine in something. All Philadelphia Eagles followers did earlier than the sport was run their mouths as a result of they believed that this crew was destined for an additional ring. That they’d ship not like the Phillies within the World Series mere months in the past. That we had been about to usher within the daybreak of a Philly sports activities renaissance.
I don’t know if it was confidence carried over from Super Bowl LII, the Eagles’ thrashing of the rival New York Giants and San Francisco 49ers within the NFC playoffs, all of the folks selecting them to win, or some mixture of the three, however they had been feeling themselves greater than regular. I didn’t perceive the cheery disposition. It’s Philly so there’s all the time going to be a level of vanity, however this was totally different. They had been cocky, and really believed the shit they had been speaking. And that’s the place they went incorrect — hope is the place they went incorrect.
As Ignatius J. Reilly as soon as stated, “Optimism nauseates me. It is perverse. Since man’s fall, his proper position in the universe has been one of misery.” And the faster sports activities followers are to just accept that, the faster they’ll settle for my thesis: Believe in nothing.
If the pure regulation of sports activities is that solely one in all 30 to 32 groups are going to win the title every year, meaning the overwhelming majority of followers are going to finish up sad. Rings are the one factor that issues, but when nothing issues, then you may’t be harm.
The finest approach to undergo life is to insulate your self to such a level that nothing impacts you. You are a speck within the universe that’s neither insignificant nor particular. You simply are. You exist solely as a result of science dictated that lifeforms on this planet evolve into sentience.
Stop pondering. Stop believing. Stop hoping.
Whenever the topic of hope arises, so too do the Shawshank Redemption quotes about it. Andy Dufresne stated of hope: “Hope is a good thing, maybe the best of things, and no good thing ever dies.”
Well, in an alternate universe, yet one more lifelike and one with partitions made up of greater than plaster, Andy by no means escapes jail, and possibly finally ends up hanging himself as soon as he involves that realization. Does that sound uplifting to you? Look at the place optimism and easily pondering good issues will occur will get you.
I don’t get up on the nice or unhealthy facet of the mattress; I get up within the center. The day forward of me will likely be what it’s, and my frame of mind can have no influence on the efficiency of my favourite crew. I actually have tried to rid myself of something in my life that may be categorized as a “favorite,” however it is best to nonetheless be capable of perceive what I’m saying.
To be a sports activities fan is to cede management of your feelings to forces you can not management, and to do this is tantamount to voluntary self-subjugation. You willingly imprisoned your thoughts over the result of a kid’s recreation. Grow up, Philadelphia.