Yeah. The broncos have a community. It’s pretty much empty despite them having a really good season this year.
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jali67@lemmy.zip 1 day agoWe need more users. For sports for example, I doubt you’d even have even users for individual teams. A general sports community might be feasible though.
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4am@lemmy.zip 1 day ago
Birds won’t visit a feeder you haven’t hung.
tigeruppercut@lemmy.zip 1 day ago
I think I’m one of like 3 sumo fans on here
4am@lemmy.zip 1 day ago
Oh fuck is there a sumo community I should be a part of? November basho is so close, how far will Aonishki go? Is Hosh really back? What happened to Takeyasu’s hot streak from a few tournaments back? Is Ura still the love of my life? Will Kotoeiho ever make it back to Makuuchi??
FiddlersViridian@sh.itjust.works 1 day ago
If you’re up for it, try to convert me into a fan. Why should I care about sumo? <Insert joke about fat guys in diapers> (FWIW I’m genuinely asking, I know nothing about it beyond pop culture depictions, and that it has a long history, but I’ll bet there are good reasons why you love it.)
4am@lemmy.zip 1 day ago
It’s actually awesome. It’s pretty pure athleticism, so the sport is there. Every wrestler has their own style and personality, and it even comes through when the match lasts 10 seconds. The ring is made from hardened clay and the hay bales that make up the ring are stuffed with gravel - the risk is real and the consequence of losing is pain. These guys are sometimes 400lbs of muscle (and yeah with a ton of body fat on top of it, weight is momentum and momentum is everything) who train constantly and have honed their skills for almost a lifetime to work up the ranks to even be in Grand Sumo in the first place. These dudes go out there to perform for the gods and they go as hard as they can.
It seems silly because people can’t get past “hue hue naked and fat” and they made a trope out of it but it’s just about everything that makes competition “pure” distilled down into a single sport. It’s hard not to pop off after a good top division match, I’m always yelling at the TV.