Some of my friends in the group chats are sports fans and whenever they talk about sports, they don't talk about the sort of stuff I imagine a sports fan would actually care about. It's not "I hope my team wins the big game 
" and stuff like that, it's always the meta stuff.
"Hey dude, did you hear the Minnesota Penguins are going to sell their quarterback to Washington Eagles?"
"Yeah I heard coach LeMarius hates Chad Thunderpeepee because he called him the n word back in 2017 so they're getting rid of him. I thought they'd get rid of the coach first, there were rumors he's going to transfer off to either JanuarySixers or Arizona Thunder Warriors"
"That would have been such a shame, he's been with the team for four consecutive Galactic Cup victories, if they win this year too he'll finally get his Stormwind Signet Ring and a statue in the Hall of Fame"
It's always nonsense like this, discussing trades, injuries, transfers etc. I started noticing this a few years ago when I finally googled "fantasy football" after hearing them talk about it every fricking year. Whatever happened to just liking the game? You'd think the average sports fan would be like a FIFA 2023 fan not a Football Manager 2023 fan. 
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Sports fans are like fans of anything else that has limited content. There are only so many games to watch, then if you want more content, you're reading articles about sports. Then you're on a discussion forum talking about sports. That's the point where people start to know way too much detail about stuff. It's the same thing as people who get obsessed with video games, it's just that it's socially unacceptable to talk about video games in real life, so you don't hear about it in person as much.
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Agree about the obsession thing. Disagree about the content. Maybe different for americans, but say your a soccer fan.
Can follow
local team and local league.
English premiership
Spanish league
the internationals and european club championships
Thats a pile of games and would be fairly normal for someone thats very into football.
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