19 Comments
User's avatar
John Marr's avatar

The night the Giants won the World Series, I was in the Roxie watching a 4-hour documentary about Boyd Rice.

Expand full comment
Jack Boulware's avatar

Not a lot of Venn diagram audience overlap there...

Expand full comment
Alvin Orloff's avatar

Countless effeminate little gayboys first learned they were considered detestable freaks during grade school P.E. class. The regular guys used every sportsball game as an opportunity to insult and assault us without mercy. In result, lots and lots of gay men (even if they sexually fetishize jocks!) have exactly zero interest in competitive sports and would rather watch even the worst high school production of Hello Dolly! than The Big Game.

Expand full comment
Jack Boulware's avatar

Ha ha, thanks for reading Alvin! Yeah, I'll take the arts every time!

Expand full comment
Olga Zilberbourg's avatar

Haha you really take disliking something to its limits, The Art of the Diss 😂 I mean, reading all of these books on sport??! That sounds terrible and shows amazing commitment! You need to get this book published and then give lectures on how to really hate something :))

This was a great lol moment: "So I don’t yell for my team, drive a big truck, or have a chainsaw in the garage"

So entertaining!

Expand full comment
Jack Boulware's avatar

Ha, thanks Olga! My ossified views will soften in later installments. Spoiler alert!

Expand full comment
Olga Zilberbourg's avatar

Oh no don't tell me you've become a sports fan! I know story arcs and I can almost see it, but I've refuse!

Expand full comment
Jack Boulware's avatar

Not to worry — still not a fan!

Expand full comment
Olga Zilberbourg's avatar

whew!

Expand full comment
Casey McCabe's avatar

That article was a slam dunk, Jack. ("slam dunk" being an emphatic shot often celebrated in basketball)

Expand full comment
Jack Boulware's avatar

Oh, so THAT'S what that means!

Expand full comment
Casey McCabe's avatar

Yep! Up top, bro!

Expand full comment
Joe Brown's avatar

wow, Aristotle with the stealth burn!

Expand full comment
Joe Brown's avatar

one copy, please.

Expand full comment
Jack Boulware's avatar

Hi Joe, I would love to get this published...let's see how substack likes the following segments!

Expand full comment
Joe Brown's avatar

i would love to see it published, too. i’ll share it with my (few remaining) publisherish contacts. 🏆

Expand full comment
Joe Brown's avatar

“Oh God, no” 😆💐

Expand full comment
Charlie Haas's avatar

The tedium of sports fandom is why God made record collecting.

Expand full comment
User's avatar
Comment deleted
Jul 25
Comment deleted
Expand full comment
Joe Brown's avatar

i don’t hate sports, although i was traumatized by it in childhood. there just has never been a place in my brain for it. carlos alcaraz has sparked an interest in tennis, of course, and the las culturistas spin-off podcast about the olympics provides the human context, color, and narrative that clicks with me.

Expand full comment