You are at a baseball game with your son. You see a fly ball and tell him to catch it. He catches it, but soon someone behind you snatches it out of his glove. As you turn around, you see an angry man telling you that it was his.
This is an example of a fan who has become toxic. It’s one thing to cheer for your team and maybe get a little angry if they were called out unfairly. But there are fans who will cause a scene and even get violent because of something as simple as someone else catching a fly ball. There are angry fans everywhere; no matter what the sport is, there will always be toxic fans at a game, at home watching it on TV, or online.
You can be passionate about sports like you can be about anything, but when it becomes yelling at coaches or stealing a fly ball from a child, it has gone too far. Even online, you’ll see someone make an opinion about a team, saying how much they love the team. But you’ll find that one person, or several, saying to that person that they are stupid, that the team they like is bad, and just other general insulting things.
It’s one thing to not agree with someone, whether it be sports or otherwise, but it becomes toxic when you insult someone simply for what they like, and if you don’t agree with it then keep it to yourself; you don’t need to tell the world that you hate something someone else loves. The same goes for competitive video games. If you are not good at the game and make your team lose, you will get insulted because you are not good, even if it’s your first time playing.
It doesn’t stop at professional sports. Parents will get mad at someone else’s child because they didn’t hit a home run or make a touchdown or goal. When children get involved, it can become dangerous because people can be very protective of their child. Once people realize that not everyone is good at sports and that it’s supposed to be fun, then maybe we can enjoy games without someone becoming toxic and angry.
