Things not seen in the statistics: Behind the numbers of sports fans in 2021

5-4 games a week, thousands of hours of watching, dozens of sleepless nights, days of anxieties for a few minutes of happiness, dozens of unnecessary fights, time wasted on clips from the past and updates on nothing, and God forbid, some judo.

2021 Summary: The Numbers

Paz Hasdai

01/01/2022

Saturday, 01 January 2022, 09:00

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Four to five football games a week on average, not including euros (where the numbers rise). Two basketball games a week, incomplete (during the NBA playoffs the balance changes). Four times a year periods that include two weeks with an hour a day on average for tennis tournaments (admits that sometimes this is embodied in the football hours, as part of a jumble). Between five and six nights a year that turn into silly white nights because of drifting after a football game. A few good hours of baseball, unnecessary by all accounts. MMA. News updates. formula 1. God forbid, some judo.

This year was also a blessed 16 days of Olympic disciplines.

16 full days.

Loaded.

Remember a whole morning devoted to slalom canoeing in a raging river.

Hours of watching delegations march through the stadium and athletes wave goodbye.

Then whole mornings of swimming, gymnastics, taekwondo.

A day of real excitement from a bike race.

The day of the artistic gymnastics final began and did not end, lasting two weeks of celebrations and scandals.

Weightlifting and table tennis, hours upon hours of listening to Miri Nevo and Oded Halperin.

The waves of love for athletics later carried me to the Diamond League competitions, just so as not to part.

I had a son, and I felt the urge to call him artium.

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A few hours, a few thrills.

Artium (Photo: AP, Ashley Landis)

Thousands of minutes of real pressure on the heart, from my damn group.

A week of dysfunction ahead of the cup final derby, environmental disconnect.

Dozens of times a person gets up in a panic from his sleep, imagining scripts, trying to prepare himself for the worst of all.

A whole evening with a bowed head, suffering and anxiety, then pure happiness, an outburst of joy, too extreme, disturbed gaps, between worry and rejoicing.

Dozens of Saturdays a year dedicated to a failing industry.

Unfortunately, too many times it slipped into Sundays and Mondays.

It is difficult to estimate the harm to the family, but I will try: at least 15 fights with the spouse over conduct on the basis of football.

Dozens of dinners that I demonstratively abandon and retire to the living room screen, no choice, it's now.

Dozens of reprimands for loud reactions, hundreds of moments of mutual despair, thousands of frustrations and small concessions.

There are endless times when a zombie dad, not listening, not answering, acts like a jerk.

A few rare minutes of kindness, with the girl in my lap, listening for explanations as to why.

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99 percent of the time in football nothing happens, the rest of the time is worth the investment (Photo: Sport 2)

Thousands of hours of sleep lost as a result of a disrupted lifestyle.

Whole nights of restless sleep on the living room sofa against the backdrop of flashing lights.

In the days of the Champions League games start at 22:00, first fall asleep at 22:20, a bad wake on the couch at 00:30, then another hour of watching summaries.

During the NBA playoffs a man living according to United States time, east and west, manages his schedule according to the development of series.

Disruptive agenda, chronic fatigue, insomnia, to watch football and basketball.

There are things that are not included in the statistics.

Wasted hours, made "in parallel with real life", for day-to-day functioning.

For example, the preparations, mentality and tactics, for games.

The unnecessary hours of reading reports.

Full days of web browsing.

Period of leave and obsessive ripples, check if a purchase has arrived.

And when it comes to purchasing, check it out.

Before this game the ensembles, after the surgery game, aimless surfing the nets hoping to look for one funny tweet, which comes on every 150 redundant, dumb, vicious.

Hundreds of shit that lasted too long, just because of it.

LeBron (Photo: Reuters)

Hundreds of crap that last too long, just because they are a time of quiet and communion that allow summaries to be viewed. And there is the time when no one counts, of watching summaries from the past, flirting and indulging in nostalgia. The dumbest, hardest thing to explain, is the time that is corrupt in watching videos of fans singing in the stands. Everything leads to a severe impairment of daily functioning, in light of the need to interrupt everything when a phone news update arrives in Push, when a person stops his walk, his commitment, all his actions, in order to be updated with the new and unimportant information.

And if we continue to segment the statistics, the numbers show that in 98 percent of the time in a football game nothing happens, but the remaining two percent is irreversible material.

Just one in 15 games you watch will really excite you and leave a mark on you, but it will be so overwhelming that you will watch dozens more hoping to recreate the emotion.

This is what leads to hours of frustration, a sense of missing out, a cruel FOMO, when one knows that at this hour City is starting against Tottenham, and he is doing something else.

Dozens of leagues, hundreds of athletes, from all over.

Thousands of hours of silly staring, for a few minutes worth it all.

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