Boston Tragedy
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no disrespect to the chick who died or anything... it's all tragic and all that...
just saying that it's not surprising that this kinda shit happens in sport. Cos Sport is like war by another name. And this game wasn't just about "may the best team win" it was about tribal rivalries that goes back almost a hundred years and the curse of the bambino and selling Babe Ruth etc... This is a deep seated tribal psychosis that is just like two countries that hate each other going to war, u know primeval tribal shit.
Otherwise everyone would sit back and just admire the skills of both team and go "yes, lovely form.. well hit old chap". But it's not, it;s about victory and defeat. It is another way of fighting and defeating ur enemy, only in a non-violent way. And both teams are expected to show as much agression and animosity for each other as two monkey gangs fighting over terrirotry and tearing each other up. It's our repitilian brains see. We need the tribes. That's why Sports teams represent Cities and Countries. Otherwise they wouldn't be called Boston Red Sox, they'd take the name of the corporation that actually own them. But then that wouldn't engender tribal loyalty. The primeval type.
So u see Jaz when these people riot, it is inherent in the way they identify themselves as belonging to the Boston tribe and their bitter hatred of the Yankees. What happens to some people is that they see the "violence" enacted by their tribe upon the other tribe (on the baseball field) and they get caught up with the agressive joy of defeating ur enemy - but feel gilty that they were'nt part of that victory (or "symbolic" violence". That they were just witnesses. Makes them feel left out of the tribe. So to join in with the tribe, they use the reptilian hardwired behaviour in their brain and start rioting off the pitch in the name of their tribe and unleah the pent up agression. This is inherent in the nature of sport.
Of course some people just like to tear shit up. Me, i never got into that tribal shit. I always think the best team should win and i like admiring the athletes skills on the pitch... Unless Man U are playing ofcourse - in which case I hope they get destroyed the fuckin scum ;)