I you want to be a dumber fan read some of Jorr ' s baseball thoughts.
That ought to do the trick.

I'm beginning to think that being ignorant about a sport may be the best way to enjoy it.

I'm not talking about unintentional ignorance(no offense 312player). I'm talking about intentional ignorance. This is actively choosing not to care about what an A gap is, or who is sitting in the minors, or how good the guys are who try and kick the ball into the goal is. I think this is illustrated very well by the soccer World Cup. I had no idea who anyone was prior to the tournament, and I still can only name Tim Howard and that is probably because I saw his name in the news in the past few days. I still really enjoyed watching and found it exciting. Soccer is a pretty horrible sport so this actually is quite a major revelation.

Another example is last year when I was watching college football with a fellow alum who has a job that makes it all but impossible to follow the team more than on gamedays. He couldn't name the backup quarterback on the team and the conversation was very generic and mostly filled with positive memories from previous years(Drew Brees and Kyle Orton were pretty great!). However, he seemed to enjoy the game a lot more than I did. He could sit down and take it at face value and then move on. I sat there wondering what the next 4 years were going to look like based on how someone was improving. I'm not a scout. I'm an idiot fan. I'm just a more educated idiot fan. If I sat down with the coach to talk about the team I'd sound like a moron. What value am I getting about knowing all of this stuff? The gameday experience isn't better. I can make myself sound smart but realistically the difference between me and most other fans is so small that it doesn't matter.

I think this is why I have enjoyed the Blackhawks so much. I don't care about anything. I want to see Kane and Toews and Crawford do well and win. I don't get caught up in being mad that a third string guy who is making $800k is probably only worth $450k. I can turn it on, watch, cheer, and then move on with my life.

The other side is that it is fairly obvious that sports take up too much of my life as it is. There really is no value in any of the sports knowledge I have. It can't make me money. It can't make me sound smart except to people that don't care about sports enough to know similar amounts of useless information. Imagine what I could do with my life if I knew less about Jimmy Clausen and more about something that mattered and could actually help me in my life.

It seems like I am just rambling here, and that is because I am. I guess my point, and it sounds dumb, is that I'm starting to regret the place that sports takes in my life. I'm going to pledge to myself to try and be a dumber fan going forward.

As you get older, it's harder to keep up with the sports knowledge. You can't memorize all the stats that were on the backs of the players cards anymore. Growing up sucks.

What makes you think you know so much about sports?

I don't know much else.

It would be better to be ignorant of the seamy underside of the sports industries.

It would be better to be ignorant of the seamy underside of the sports industries.

I you want to be a dumber fan read some of Jorr ' s baseball thoughts.
That ought to do the trick.

Or one of your home improvement tips.

As you get older, it's harder to keep up with the sports knowledge. You can't memorize all the stats that were on the backs of the players cards anymore. Growing up sucks.