“Sports are basically our way of feeling sorry for ourselves. Most men can't become athletes. We're watching guys who actually made it. We see them dunking and making touchdowns. Then we think about ourselves when we were younger.”

Meaning

This reads as a jokingly self-aware take on fandom and aspiration. It can be taken to mean that we watch elite athletes not only for the game, but because they embody the version of success many people once imagined for themselves. It lands during a loss, a big game, or a conversation about why sports can stir so much personal feeling beyond the score.

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Originally said in English.

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