How emotionally involved/attached do you get in games?

[xmuscularghandix]

Probably WAY too much, i felt nauseous before last nights game. And during it I was screaming and stomping like a maniac.

[bello_man09]

i go to the gentlemen's  club and  get a couple of dances..**** not really i usually just go to bed....no sports center, my wife  is from L.A, she now supports the Celtics because of me ...she told me they give her heart ache,,,lol... yesterday she stopped watching and went to the room....I told her its not easy  been a Celtic...she didn't follow the regular season to see what up and downs we went through especially this season...with losses like this just reminds me of how our regular season was...

[Kiorrik]

Oh btw, I'm loud too :p

Especially when the refs start screwing things up. Or during that game 2. Man, I wasn't shouting at the top of my lungs but I was certainly (according to witnesses) the loudest Boston fan in the pub

[Toine43]

I started throwing things all over my house when Pierce picked up that bogus 5th foul. Generally I stare at the TV and lean towards it very intensely, and get pumped up in a JR Giddens/Nate Robinson sort of way when things are going well.

[tenn_smoothie]

Celts basketball or Vols football - i'm all in - my heart is with both those teams because they have been with me since i was a kid - you know how your first love is - and these "first loves" have stayed with me.

so ................ games are either very enjoyable (well played where the Celts are leading most of the way), ecstatic (Celts playing great and blowing out a quality opponent, or agony (Celts not playing well, struggling).

great wins and i'm on top of the world for a couple of days, bad losses (last nite) can ruin a week (after the Finals 1987 game 4 loss vs Lakers, after McHale lost the rebound out of bounds that led to Johnson's winning hook shot, i drove around knoxville for a couple of hours in the middle of the nite to try to calm down). sometimes, i've got that "jerry west syndrome" in that sometimes it just gets too agonizing to watch.

so yeah, watching a game, i'm all in, cheering, clapping, cursing, throwing things, celebrating, yelling at the players, yelling at Doc, definitely yelling at the refs, cursing the other team (especially bryant and lebron, used to be kareem or laimbeer, before that the knicks, kareem with the bucks, before that chamberlain and baylor).


so to answer your question - very emotional.

[jambr380]

I'm sure that any passionate fan in any sport invests themselves a lot in their team, and I don't think it's unreasonable to assume that your day is a little bit better if the Celtics win, or worse, if they lose. Makes it even tougher when they throw away a great game 2 win in a game 3 loss, due to bad officiating. I'm curious if there are others that get too emotionally involved, or if you used to be like that, but just learned to not take it as seriously anymore.

It pretty much ruins my night and whole next day. And in the case of elimination, depending on how bad, a week or two. I'm a huge Boston sports fan. The Pats loss to the Giants was call in sick material... Terrible night.

I know what you mean about the Pats/Giants (and the Pats/Colts playoff game when the Colts came back to win in the 2nd half after being down big). Celtics are always number one, though and I get really upset- like they didn't try hard enough and they just don't care...

[celticsclay]

I'm sure that any passionate fan in any sport invests themselves a lot in their team, and I don't think it's unreasonable to assume that your day is a little bit better if the Celtics win, or worse, if they lose. Makes it even tougher when they throw away a great game 2 win in a game 3 loss, due to bad officiating. I'm curious if there are others that get too emotionally involved, or if you used to be like that, but just learned to not take it as seriously anymore.

It pretty much ruins my night and whole next day. And in the case of elimination, depending on how bad, a week or two. I'm a huge Boston sports fan. The Pats loss to the Giants was call in sick material... Terrible night.

I know what you mean about the Pats/Giants (and the Pats/Colts playoff game when the Colts came back to win in the 2nd half after being down big). Celtics are always number one, though and I get really upset- like they didn't try hard enough and they just don't care...

i still feel crappy right now

[FreeGreen]

I actually run a temperature when I'm watching the games.  My wife says I literally have Celtics fever. 

After every playoff loss, I go out in the backyard and shoot baskets for about half an hour just to clear my head and chill out a bit.

[ACF]

Too much. It doesn't help that games are usually played in what is in the middle of the night here (Northern Europe, CET) and I have literally no one to watch the games with. The only friend I have that watches basketball (with a passion) is a Laker fan and he lives in the Dominican Republic. I guess that's why coming here means a lot to me. A loss wil generally leave me in a pretty foul mood while a win can make my whole day great.

[Rondo_is_better]

Way, way too invested. Especially last night. I was legit crazy last night. Smashed my remote into the ground, shoved xbox controllers off my table, whipped my hat against the wall, curled up in the fetal position, practically had an annurism (sp?) screaming at some points, practically started crying at others.

[GreenFaith1819]

Well, I think that because it's The Lakers - this is where most of our collective attachment with this series comes from.

For me, it has helped that my oldest son watches nearly all the games with me. He keeps me even-keeled.

The sad thing is that he is getting turned off by these games - even at his young age of almost 12 he can see how the Referees are influencing games. He sees it for himself - without me pointing it out.

He is even-minded, too - he has noted how Kobe had 5 fouls the other night - he couldn't believe it. He started out loving Kobe Bryant earlier in his love of Basketball, and he could not remember over the last few years when this phenomenon happened.

He has since acquired a love of Team Basketball that Boston has, but I see him getting disinterested here lately due to the officiating.

[Toine43]

Looks like most of us are on the same page when it comes to emotional involvement. I like it! Wonder if the Faker fans are the same way.

[MaxwellSmart86]

True Story---Last night the Cops came to my apartment--cause a neighbor called---they actually thought I was murdering someone when they heard the yelling by me(at the refs of course)---I let them in to see part of the game.

[Edgar]

see. All of the  above combined by 10000000000000000000000

[celtics2]

Are you kidding. I DVR all games and watch next day in peace and quiet w/no time outs, play reviews, ads etc. Re run questionable plays when and if I want to. And don't have to listen to the comedy act of VanGundy and Jackson. Games start at 9 pm est. Sucks. I watch a 3 hr tv game in about an hour.