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<blockquote data-quote="Obelix" data-source="post: 1409725" data-attributes="member: 7292"><p>I had played basketball for a long time I still do coach so in that sense basketball has always been part of my life. But just to clarify, I am not currently making a "living" off basketball neither do I plan to, my primary professional career does not involve basketball.</p><p></p><p>As far as fandom, IMO it has nothing to do with being illogical, fandom has to do with support. Fortunately or unfortunately, I have never wavered on my Illini support for 35 years. I do enjoy posting on Illini message boards and I do enjoy different opinions and have posted for 30 years (since the early college basketball lists on UNIX machines). I disagree that logic and rationality lead to pessimism, I am generally an optimist, I just don't like to cloud my judgement. I understand that others enjoy Illini message boards to feel good about their team independent of logic/reality, I just enjoy it for the purpose of not only sharing information but also for engaging on discussion with different opinions on Illini.</p><p></p><p>We are all different. Many posters take things too personally IMO, often calling out poster X, or poster Y, or poster Z, or even engaging in name calling (to be later deleted)... and it is often very obvious that agreements/disagreements/opinions stem from "who" posted something rather than "what" the content of the post was. I do not engage into that, I stick to content, and try to quote specific content, thus I have agreed <u>and</u> disagreed on different topics with most people. At he end, at least per my definition (support), we are all fans. It should never be personal.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="Obelix, post: 1409725, member: 7292"] I had played basketball for a long time I still do coach so in that sense basketball has always been part of my life. But just to clarify, I am not currently making a "living" off basketball neither do I plan to, my primary professional career does not involve basketball. As far as fandom, IMO it has nothing to do with being illogical, fandom has to do with support. Fortunately or unfortunately, I have never wavered on my Illini support for 35 years. I do enjoy posting on Illini message boards and I do enjoy different opinions and have posted for 30 years (since the early college basketball lists on UNIX machines). I disagree that logic and rationality lead to pessimism, I am generally an optimist, I just don't like to cloud my judgement. I understand that others enjoy Illini message boards to feel good about their team independent of logic/reality, I just enjoy it for the purpose of not only sharing information but also for engaging on discussion with different opinions on Illini. We are all different. Many posters take things too personally IMO, often calling out poster X, or poster Y, or poster Z, or even engaging in name calling (to be later deleted)... and it is often very obvious that agreements/disagreements/opinions stem from "who" posted something rather than "what" the content of the post was. I do not engage into that, I stick to content, and try to quote specific content, thus I have agreed [U]and[/U] disagreed on different topics with most people. At he end, at least per my definition (support), we are all fans. It should never be personal. [/QUOTE]
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