Fans and Family

Since the beginning of time, rivalries have affected every sports fans in some way, shape, or form.The real question is, what effects do rivalries have on families and fans? Statesmen, a Houston,Texas newspaper,  has  an article with the answer.

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Each family would create traditions for celebrating holidays full of feasting, decorations, gifts and songs. Those traditions kept the family bound together. It also created important memories that helped everyone to remember family members who had passed on.

This passage explains how people would alter their day and celebrate together all because two teams with an abnormally strong relationship are going head to head. As a result, people would create traditions for each rivalry game, which bonds them together even more. These traditions create memories as well, which cause people to remember their loved ones who have passed on.

This year, we saw the continued disintegration of the Big 12 conference. Texas and Texas A&M played their last game (at least for a while), and a host of rituals and traditions for students and fans will disappear along with the Thanksgiving match up.

This excerpt explains how when sports teams leave the conference and/or stop playing each other, the rivalry disintegrates and family ties get weaker. Sometimes families live far away and go without seeing each other for a while, but rivalries force them to communicate. Without these prime time match ups, this communication will no longer be their.

Family traditions and sports rivalries play two important roles in our lives. They connect us to our past, and they help us to create the family that sustains us in our future.

Another effect that rivalries have on us is that we feel a deep connection with our ancestors, which helps us to remember them. Hopefully, events like these bring back positive memories so we become happy. These memories also inspire us to create more good memories with the family that we have on earth. This article supports that rivalries and family traditions have a positive effect on people because remembering something good about a loved one is always pleasing.



FUTURE RESEARCH: Do rivalries have a negative or positive effect on fans and family?