Do Sports Fans Go To Far?

Summary

In the article "Do Sports Fans Go To Far?" is written about how people can go to far than expected.  There have been reports of fans roaming in the streets breaking windows and stores because of their team losing.  They say that people would sometimes skip school or work for being depressed about their team losing, suicides have occurred.  Though they also say the being a sports fan can have a positive side also.  Like meeting new people.  Being a sports fan means you can get a bit to far but meet people.

Thoughts, Connections

My thoughts about reading this article was "yes they are going to far".  My father saw the Super Bowl 2014 and I got to watch only half of it (because I was having fun walking around the kitchen.) and when his team lost he was mad and did't go back tot eh TV but he wasn't going insane.  About an hour later he was fine and he took us to eat.  Though one thing that caught my attention was maybe the history for all the insanity sports fans are taking.  Another is the statistics of people following Lebron James is more than Dalai Lama's followers in twitter.  Lebron has 13.9 million followers and Dalai has 9.2 million followers.  Also the number of people that saw the 2014 Super Bowl (111.5 million) compared to the first 2012 presidential debate (67.2 million).  I remember hearing in the radio that this man committed suicide because his favorite team lost a game.  My mother thought that was stupid for him to do that, she told me his team would probably win the next game.  Also I heard people Los Angeles were breaking and roaming their city because the Lakers lost against another team in basketball.  I'm a sports fan and I remember my father and I were jumping like crazy  when the Chicago Blackhawks won the Stanley Cup against the Bruins.  We ate pizza and hot chicken wings.  Then the coach signed a contract about the next year play offs.  When I saw that they lost we were sad but got over it.  I never would imagine myself being swallowed by angry people who their team lost.