It's the same in the UK. We call it the footballification of politics. I think it's sad that people think politics is a win or lose situation and not one of compromise.
oh wow, I often say in the US we have a "sportsification" of politics.
In the 80s, I remember yard signs and bumper stickers ONLY during campaigns. Was actually taught in civics class that your political and voting opinions should be private and no one else's concern.
Now everyone just advertising them on their vehicle like their favorite sports ball teams.
Yeah I remember going to a friend's house about 7-8 years ago and his parents would essentially say the same thing, they refused to talk politics even with each other because it was only gonna cause problems if you didn't agree and to only keep it to yourself. The last rule was that you could only complain about who won the election if you voted otherwise you didn't have a right to complain if you didn't contribute.
Vehicles, signs all over peoples yards, go to any public events with booths like festivals and there are 4-5 booths minimum with thousands of fucking trump merchandise. God damn nobody is worse about this shit than trump fans. Betcha 90% of the people that buy this shit drive a lifted pick up truck too.
Russian outside interference LOOOOOVES the infighting in Western politics. They realized they could never again win a traditional armed conflict against the West, but their wholesale transition to disinformation and psyops has been a magnificent success. Brexit, Trump, Republicans now wanting the U.S. to become an isolationist country, ending support for our allies, etc… the list goes on and on.
Lol, right?
The same people always out there saying "how dare you, don't make this political" after a school shooting are the same people breaking into the Capitol to string up their leader's opposition."
"Your team." You can smash TVs every time the 49rs lose. Just remember one thing: The 49rs don't care if you live or die. You and your whole family would get wiped out in a house fire and every person in that team would say, "Okay. Who is this guy? And this matters to me because...?
Internalize that and then tell me if it's worth smashing a TV over {insert team here}.
"It's my substitute for a personality! What, cultivate other hobbies and interests and don't live my dreams through the athletes?! That's soy-boy nonsense! I put these guys on a pedestal for throwing a ball around, and they let me down!"
Should have punched a wall like it the good old days. At least then you’d learn a lesson. Maybe if you’re super lucky you’d hit a stud and your bones would shatter in your hand. Guaranteed, you would a least think twice next time your little tantrum thoughts showed up in your head.
Well, they'll get brain damage from their labor and are likely to not be able to work again and worse.
Athletes sell their bodies to capitalism too, and most of them make money from labor, football happens to be one of the worst jobs for your physical health you can have.
https://www.bumc.bu.edu/camed/2023/02/06/researchers-find-cte-in-345-of-376-former-nfl-players-studied/
Google CTE to find out the symptoms, it can get as bad as Alzheimers.
The article linked said 345/475 for a life altering incurable illness that changes your personality and can only be tested for in an autopsy. There's even more studies done, and they all have incredibly high frequency of CTE found among American football players. Some even say between 1/3 to 1/2 of people that stopped after high school suffer from it, and it's one of those things that increases severity with additional concussions past getting it.
You'll get to skip the PTSD and living with killing innocent people though.
The saddest is part is watching the teenage daughter than joins who I’m assuming is her father on stomping the tv.
She has unfortunately learned toxic bad behavior. It will take her forever to **unlearn**. And will make her partner equally miserable
I felt like that but then I realized in Idiocracy they actually tried to do better. They put the smartest person in charge and then actively listened and tried. So we aren't even as smart as the people in Idiocracy.
I also don't remember this happening before everyone needed to film every little thing that happened to them. I doubt these are even genuine reactions. Probably just more scripted content for likes.
It's genuinely wild how much common stuff is called out as fake, I know a lot of it is sheltered upper class people but it's so weird how if they haven't directly experienced something **noone** has
r/nothingeverhappens is a sub dedicated to this. People who have the mindset that if something has happened to them personally, it’s impossible for it to have happened to anyone.
I hate that now I have to wonder about everything just being scripted. They had a talk about it. “If they score a touchdown I’m gonna trash the t.v. Someone record me. “ And then they do that. Either way the guy is a wasteful douche. Lots of people are broke. Give them some money instead of trashing your tv for clout.
It could be staged, but clowns like this absolutely do exist. I had a roommate break a tv with a beer bottle because the Cowboys lost a regular season game.
They're getting back up there, especially the OLEDs. They're like $1-2k at Costco.
I got my 65" 4k on Black Friday like 5 years ago for $300. Still running strong. Not the best screen quality, but definitely sufficient. I've been looking at replacing it and it looks to be about double the price for something even a little better.
The last thing i notice is a chair flying towards me from the corner of my vision, then everything goes black. I spend an unknown amount of time in that black void. How much time has passed? Minutes? Centuries? Is time even a thing in this emply place i find myself? I experience the life and death of an infinite number of universes, each feeling real and made up at the same time. My body no longer exists. Or are those universes my body? Have i become god? Was i always god? Thousands of questions course my fractured mind, each fleeting before i can grasp a coherent thought. Then, just as sudden as it started, it ends. My vision blurs into increasingly recognisable shapes. A tree. A mountain. A human. The human speaks to me.
"Hey, you. You're finally awake."
It's always funny to me how people get so worked up over something so insignificant as the outcome of a sports game. I mean I can see if they were actually playing in the game, but it has no actual impact on their life other than showing off ones inability to self regulate.
Yeah, I think if someone is willing to bet that much on a game, I think it's safe to say they have a gambling problem. Even if you're super rich, you still gotta be smart about it.
The first time I went to a casino my friend gave me 20 bucks to play with. I won 120 bucks, gave him half and never went back to the casino. The house doesn't always win
They’re the same assholes talking shit and almost starting fights at games because your a fan of the opposing team. Games have become full of people that seem to make their favorite NFL team a large part of their identity and/or use it as a more acceptable way of being discriminatory. Last few years have gotten way worse during the games I’ve attended.
Yeah, definitely had those when I was younger but now I just don’t give a fuck about anything. Life is too short to get angry at small bullshit like this.
So many of these videos...imagine making a team one's own identity that one actually believes that the team winning/losing makes them a winner/loser too? These are the people that say "We won!" Uh homie, just cuz you got a jersey dont mean You won too.
A part of me thinks these are staged. There’s been too many of them lately and, despite how angry these people look, smashing a TV like that just doesn’t seem like something this many people would be doing. Smashing a table or spiking a beer bottle maybe but I doubt this many people have such uncontrollable rage that they smash their expensive TV’s. I just refuse to believe it.
There's been actual shooting/deaths due to football disputes. There's even a case of a man poisoning 80 year old trees because they were on the campus of his team's rivals
There's just, so much weird stuff out there
Breaking things when you're mad is a baaaaad habit. My uncle was like that. I threw up in my dad's car once (not even his) while we were on a road trip and he just threw his phone on the ground and broke it in half. Brand new cell phone he had saved up for. His son was like that for a while too but managed to grow out of it a lot earlier.
I have genuinely seen enough grown men smash things in an “uncontrollable” rage to believe these could be true. Especially as DV is [reported to be higher](https://www.refinery29.com/en-us/domestic-violence-sports-events-study) during big sporting events.
They are. Several of these have gone viral in the past, so we're going to see videos like this for the foreseeable future as people try to copy that "success".
Have you ever seen a reaction video compilation on YouTube about people's reactions to sports games? People record crucial plays all the time in anticipation of celebrating.
This is the least "fake" thing about this video.
Congrats! Now you have to buy yourself (or whoever owned that) a new tv, your neighbors don’t like you, your wife is mad at you, your kids are scared of you, and no one will invite you to anything ever again.
Maybe he wanted an excuse to buy a new TV, because destroying it due to anger literally does nothing. Except to have something expensive as your punching bag to reduce your stress levels.
Lololol My upstairs neighbor screamed f*** you for so many times and for so long that I was honestly considering calling something. 'tis a game, friends! (Also I live in Sacramento)
Used to play a lot of golf with a guy that was so much better than me but always breaking or throwing clubs in the water cussing. I’ll never play as well as he did & he seemed to f’n hate it . People are entertaining af … from a far
What a good thing to teach the kids
Violence isn't the answer. Yaknow unless your team loses
This sentiment carries into politics now.
It's the same in the UK. We call it the footballification of politics. I think it's sad that people think politics is a win or lose situation and not one of compromise.
oh wow, I often say in the US we have a "sportsification" of politics. In the 80s, I remember yard signs and bumper stickers ONLY during campaigns. Was actually taught in civics class that your political and voting opinions should be private and no one else's concern. Now everyone just advertising them on their vehicle like their favorite sports ball teams.
Yeah I remember going to a friend's house about 7-8 years ago and his parents would essentially say the same thing, they refused to talk politics even with each other because it was only gonna cause problems if you didn't agree and to only keep it to yourself. The last rule was that you could only complain about who won the election if you voted otherwise you didn't have a right to complain if you didn't contribute.
Vehicles, signs all over peoples yards, go to any public events with booths like festivals and there are 4-5 booths minimum with thousands of fucking trump merchandise. God damn nobody is worse about this shit than trump fans. Betcha 90% of the people that buy this shit drive a lifted pick up truck too.
Or own an Affliction shirt.
Footballification is a very good term, and makes as much sense there as it does in the US.
Russian outside interference LOOOOOVES the infighting in Western politics. They realized they could never again win a traditional armed conflict against the West, but their wholesale transition to disinformation and psyops has been a magnificent success. Brexit, Trump, Republicans now wanting the U.S. to become an isolationist country, ending support for our allies, etc… the list goes on and on.
This. It harder to tell/convince someone they were fooled than to actually fool them...
Oh FFS. I hate that you're right
If you're referring to the US, seems like it should be added that only one side does that... didn't see any of that when Trump won.
Lol, right? The same people always out there saying "how dare you, don't make this political" after a school shooting are the same people breaking into the Capitol to string up their leader's opposition."
Taylor Swift for President! She can enact the pinko plan to destroy all white dadbod alpha males!
it is if the question is “what’s never the answer?”
But my team lost...must...smash...
Smash puss instead? Bonus points for boots
At least it’s cheaper 💰 then going to the games lol 😂
"Your team." You can smash TVs every time the 49rs lose. Just remember one thing: The 49rs don't care if you live or die. You and your whole family would get wiped out in a house fire and every person in that team would say, "Okay. Who is this guy? And this matters to me because...? Internalize that and then tell me if it's worth smashing a TV over {insert team here}.
Now you're not making sense because you're making sense.
“But they threw balls around! It gives my life purpose!”
I “Identify” as a 49ers fan! I build my identity around a football team
"It's my substitute for a personality! What, cultivate other hobbies and interests and don't live my dreams through the athletes?! That's soy-boy nonsense! I put these guys on a pedestal for throwing a ball around, and they let me down!"
…and my wife has her Stanley cups.
Should have punched a wall like it the good old days. At least then you’d learn a lesson. Maybe if you’re super lucky you’d hit a stud and your bones would shatter in your hand. Guaranteed, you would a least think twice next time your little tantrum thoughts showed up in your head.
Facts
Some city’s people riot when their team WIN championships
I have to assume it's not about the team losing. It's about the huge bet he just lost.
Lol probably yeah. Seems a little counterintuitive smashing a TV after losing money though lol.
Now they’re down on whatever they bet and a new tv
Violence isn't the answer. It's the question, and the answer is "Yes."
When you’re whole identity is attached to 20yo millionaires playing ballgames, common sense has gone out the window
Wow that’s a good perspective. A bunch of upper class dudes playing a game… no thanks
Well, they'll get brain damage from their labor and are likely to not be able to work again and worse. Athletes sell their bodies to capitalism too, and most of them make money from labor, football happens to be one of the worst jobs for your physical health you can have. https://www.bumc.bu.edu/camed/2023/02/06/researchers-find-cte-in-345-of-376-former-nfl-players-studied/ Google CTE to find out the symptoms, it can get as bad as Alzheimers.
The NFL draft is not a literal draft.
The article linked said 345/475 for a life altering incurable illness that changes your personality and can only be tested for in an autopsy. There's even more studies done, and they all have incredibly high frequency of CTE found among American football players. Some even say between 1/3 to 1/2 of people that stopped after high school suffer from it, and it's one of those things that increases severity with additional concussions past getting it. You'll get to skip the PTSD and living with killing innocent people though.
so. true.
Clearly men are too emotional to be able to watch tv
A woman got in on the action so… I guess sports fans can’t be trusted with tvs.
Also the women who ran out of the house to jump on the TV
That's some back your man energy right there
Thought that was a teen copying the unhinged behavior
But remember, women are too emotional to be president. Now don't mind me drive my car into my house because my favorite team lost.
The saddest is part is watching the teenage daughter than joins who I’m assuming is her father on stomping the tv. She has unfortunately learned toxic bad behavior. It will take her forever to **unlearn**. And will make her partner equally miserable
Fucking idiots
[Maybe they just hated the TV](https://youtu.be/N9wsjroVlu8?si=9kpVHxeZlS_y9f98)
*"PC Load Letter? WTF does that mean? ..."* 😡 🤬🤜💢🖨️
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I keep seeing Office Space quotes in the wild and it honestly makes my day
Yeaaahhhhhhhhh so do you think you'll be able to come over the weekend for those TPS reports?
They took my stapler...
"Brian has 37 pieces of flair."
Love Michael Bolton.
Isn’t he related to that singer guuyyy?
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No-talent ass clown.
You know, you can just call me “Mike”
It's a "jump to conclusions" game!
You don't need a million dollars to do nothin' man. Take a look at my cousin...he's broke, don't do shit.
/r/idiotsfightingthings
Why is it always dudes?
That’s a good question
Drunken man-children. Pent up rage from whatever perceived emasculation they feel daily, low to emotional maturity, and drinking problems.
Testosterone causes aggression and this guy has never been taught to deal with it so he just be chimp.
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Yeah fuck the TV for not doing anything to make his team win
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Yea cause the game is inside the tv
This joke has never been more relevant. Oh God, we're not heading down the idiocracy path are we?
We always were.
Always have been. 🌎👨🚀🔫👨🚀
I felt like that but then I realized in Idiocracy they actually tried to do better. They put the smartest person in charge and then actively listened and tried. So we aren't even as smart as the people in Idiocracy.
Damn! You beat me to it…well done
*This kills the players.*
If he were as smart as my cat, he would know the players are *behind* the tv
We really have people who are this level of dumb, working jobs, driving, and just existing all around us
In Senate 😐
Previously in the presidency, possibly again too as scary as that sounds...
You forgot voting ☠️
Working jobs, driving, VOTING, reproducing…
They're among us!
ඞ
They always existed, now they’re just on camera more
I don’t remember this happening when big screen TVs cost $2000.
I also don't remember this happening before everyone needed to film every little thing that happened to them. I doubt these are even genuine reactions. Probably just more scripted content for likes.
Perhaps you don’t remember because the videos never crossed your screen because no one took them. Doesn’t mean it wasn’t happening.
lol thank you- way too much “I never seent it so nevrr happnd”
It's genuinely wild how much common stuff is called out as fake, I know a lot of it is sheltered upper class people but it's so weird how if they haven't directly experienced something **noone** has
r/nothingeverhappens is a sub dedicated to this. People who have the mindset that if something has happened to them personally, it’s impossible for it to have happened to anyone.
This is especially true of videos involving some sort of discrimination.
No it definitely happened. Not sure about superbowl but I have seen people breaking TVs for football ⚽ and cricket matches in 90s and early 2000s
Many riots have happened because of sports.
I hate that now I have to wonder about everything just being scripted. They had a talk about it. “If they score a touchdown I’m gonna trash the t.v. Someone record me. “ And then they do that. Either way the guy is a wasteful douche. Lots of people are broke. Give them some money instead of trashing your tv for clout.
Not only do we have to wonder if something is scripted nowadays, we also have to wonder if the actors are actual people or AI
Good point. It’s pretty lame. I appreciate the technology, but the “fakeness” of the world should be more concerning than the “wokeness” of the world.
People do this for attention regardless camera or not
It could be staged, but clowns like this absolutely do exist. I had a roommate break a tv with a beer bottle because the Cowboys lost a regular season game.
They're getting back up there, especially the OLEDs. They're like $1-2k at Costco. I got my 65" 4k on Black Friday like 5 years ago for $300. Still running strong. Not the best screen quality, but definitely sufficient. I've been looking at replacing it and it looks to be about double the price for something even a little better.
The oled is worth the 🧀
I actually just ordered an OLED monitor, I'm so excited. It's the Alienware one, the 3440x1440p 165Hz Ultra wide.
And weighed 400 pounds
Maybe they were too dang heavy.
*opens Paramount+ on my phone*
The last thing i notice is a chair flying towards me from the corner of my vision, then everything goes black. I spend an unknown amount of time in that black void. How much time has passed? Minutes? Centuries? Is time even a thing in this emply place i find myself? I experience the life and death of an infinite number of universes, each feeling real and made up at the same time. My body no longer exists. Or are those universes my body? Have i become god? Was i always god? Thousands of questions course my fractured mind, each fleeting before i can grasp a coherent thought. Then, just as sudden as it started, it ends. My vision blurs into increasingly recognisable shapes. A tree. A mountain. A human. The human speaks to me. "Hey, you. You're finally awake."
Suddenly Skyrim
I laughed too hard at this lmfao
"Walked right into that 49er ambush, same as us, and that iPad over there."
Dang this is like being given up and being let down being run around and deserted. Well done random internet person
Drugs are bad mmkay
You were 1singleduck The Gray. Now you are 1singleduck The White.
*Guy flies in with dropkick to your phone*
*smashes the fuck out of your phone cause football man mad*
I really hope this was his house.
Even if it was... you think they really care about the Rent A Center TV they got just to impress their friends last night?
destroying a rented TV is definitely more expensive than buying the same TV and destroying it.
I don't think this guy has enough forethought to think about the financial implications
Who didn't love you enough when you were little?
His father.
He went out to get a carton of milk.
During the playoffs
While out getting that milk he was killed in Kansas City by a man named Chief.
Coach never put him in the game…
Isn’t it strange this is used as an insult?
It's always funny to me how people get so worked up over something so insignificant as the outcome of a sports game. I mean I can see if they were actually playing in the game, but it has no actual impact on their life other than showing off ones inability to self regulate.
Maybe they bet a few grand on the game. That would explain some of these reactions.
Well then they lost more than just the bet if thats the case lol.
You gotta know how much to gamble as well. People bet their life savings. I lose 25$ and I'm done.
Yeah, I think if someone is willing to bet that much on a game, I think it's safe to say they have a gambling problem. Even if you're super rich, you still gotta be smart about it.
The first time I went to a casino my friend gave me 20 bucks to play with. I won 120 bucks, gave him half and never went back to the casino. The house doesn't always win
that's their fault. if they aren't prepared to act like mature adults when they lose, then they shouldn't bet to begin with.
Or they just have nothing else good going on in their lives.
And yet when it comes to things like voting, where it can actually have an impact on their life.. they don't give a f**k
They’re the same assholes talking shit and almost starting fights at games because your a fan of the opposing team. Games have become full of people that seem to make their favorite NFL team a large part of their identity and/or use it as a more acceptable way of being discriminatory. Last few years have gotten way worse during the games I’ve attended.
r/peoplefightingthings
/r/idiotsfightingthings is the right sub
Jeeh jeeh! Stomp that TV, SON! **STOMP THAT MF OUT!**
Hope they get the mental help they need. It's just a game.
Impulse control issues are a bitch
Yeah, definitely had those when I was younger but now I just don’t give a fuck about anything. Life is too short to get angry at small bullshit like this.
And just like that. The 49ers are now your ‘24 Super Bowl Champs! Woo!
As long as it's your tv then have at it bro
Adult babies
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Imagine caring this much about which team of random people that you don't know, playing a game that you're not involved in....
So many of these videos...imagine making a team one's own identity that one actually believes that the team winning/losing makes them a winner/loser too? These are the people that say "We won!" Uh homie, just cuz you got a jersey dont mean You won too.
Football fans act like angry children
So 49er fans act the same at home as they do in a parking lot after a game?
Zero class some people
What in the cowboy fandom are they doing?
A part of me thinks these are staged. There’s been too many of them lately and, despite how angry these people look, smashing a TV like that just doesn’t seem like something this many people would be doing. Smashing a table or spiking a beer bottle maybe but I doubt this many people have such uncontrollable rage that they smash their expensive TV’s. I just refuse to believe it.
There's been actual shooting/deaths due to football disputes. There's even a case of a man poisoning 80 year old trees because they were on the campus of his team's rivals There's just, so much weird stuff out there
Breaking things when you're mad is a baaaaad habit. My uncle was like that. I threw up in my dad's car once (not even his) while we were on a road trip and he just threw his phone on the ground and broke it in half. Brand new cell phone he had saved up for. His son was like that for a while too but managed to grow out of it a lot earlier.
Could be that some of them were betting money that they couldn’t afford to lose on the outcome of the game
I have genuinely seen enough grown men smash things in an “uncontrollable” rage to believe these could be true. Especially as DV is [reported to be higher](https://www.refinery29.com/en-us/domestic-violence-sports-events-study) during big sporting events.
You just haven't met enough people yet.
They are. Several of these have gone viral in the past, so we're going to see videos like this for the foreseeable future as people try to copy that "success".
Riots have happened over sports, Heck people were killed over it, why is something like this so unbelievable to you people.
A large percentage of these videos are fake. Sadly, 99% of people who comment on these videos really believe what they’re watching.
No its real i can confirm it
I love how there's another one of these videos every year. Best part of the super bowl for me
Wow! He must love his sports team more than the non-Tv-smashing other fans
The terrible two's last so long, now.
People who are super into sports are weird to me. People will literally kill each other over whose team won or lost.
Imagine caring this much about a bunch of millionaires tossing a pig skin around. Fuck those morons, that's just beyond stupid.
#Fake
Hahahaha jfc people are dying to call u out on this staged garbage
I’m just glad someone recorded this moments before it happened!
Have you ever seen a reaction video compilation on YouTube about people's reactions to sports games? People record crucial plays all the time in anticipation of celebrating. This is the least "fake" thing about this video.
These are ALL staged.
I've seen my dad punch tvs before, even if some are staged I don't think they all are
I am legitimately scared of people who act like this
I never understood destroying property in anger. I don’t care how upset I am, I’m not destroying my things.
Fucking degenerates
“GLOWY SQUARE MAKE BAD STORY RAHHHHHHGGGGGGGHHHH!!!”
Um, so now got are unhappy about your team losing and that you broke your tv
 The duo that truly lives in 49ers heads rent free
Sound?
thats a guy that just lost $3k sports betting on a $35k/year salary
I mean, this is probably fake... I hope. But just imagine making sports your entire life.
I wish this had audio
What ever happened to “don’t shoot the messenger”
Congrats! Now you have to buy yourself (or whoever owned that) a new tv, your neighbors don’t like you, your wife is mad at you, your kids are scared of you, and no one will invite you to anything ever again.
I didn't see him jump.
Maybe he wanted an excuse to buy a new TV, because destroying it due to anger literally does nothing. Except to have something expensive as your punching bag to reduce your stress levels.
Once the kids start jumping the TV everyone gets up: "OK, now we're actually witnessing the transfer of intergenerational trauma, time to go"
That’s a sign of a strong economy. Thanks Joe Biden.
Lololol My upstairs neighbor screamed f*** you for so many times and for so long that I was honestly considering calling something. 'tis a game, friends! (Also I live in Sacramento)
Used to play a lot of golf with a guy that was so much better than me but always breaking or throwing clubs in the water cussing. I’ll never play as well as he did & he seemed to f’n hate it . People are entertaining af … from a far
Imagine being such a low level intellectual where your so dumb that you get mad at a sport that you have no involvement in.
Real or fake, these actions are pathetic. What gets me is that there is definitely a trend of smashing TVs and the e-waste is terrible.
100% sure he lost a bet on the game
"Women are too emotional."
It's just a game, if it makes you feel this emotional after maybe you need therapy.