Yelling At The TV While Watching The Game!

Is it okay to yell at the tv while watching sports? Fred and the crew discuss!

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three nine right now for a chance to win. A
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may apply. It's all thanks to Live Nation. A twenty
three year old woman has shared on Reddit that her
twenty five year old boyfriend's loud reactions during football games,
like yelling at the TV and cursing at players and
cheering loudly, it's causing her anxiety. She explained that her

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father had been abusive, and any raised voices in her
childhood home often followed by something worse. Her boyfriend has
never directed his anger at her. The sound of him
yelling at the TV made her feel uncomfortable and triggered
past trauma. When she asked him atona down, he became upset,
claiming that she was overreacting and expressing hurt over being
perceived as aggressive. Since then, he's been avoiding her, making

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her to feel guilty and unsure if her request was reasonable.

Speaker 1 (01:11):
This was onreaddit.

Speaker 2 (01:12):
Most people empathized with her that a loving partner should
be sensitive to pass trauma and willing to adjust behavior. Accordingly,
many pointed out that passion for football shouldn't override someone
else's emotional well being. However, if someone is yelling at
the TV and not at you, do you think that,
I mean, within the household relationship, if it's your.

Speaker 1 (01:35):
Roommate, can you say something or is it?

Speaker 2 (01:37):
Is it like, is that you being a little dramatic
because they're yelling at the Lions? It's Kaylin actually, and
she's and this is from Shane, her boyfriend. Her boyfriend
wrote this, and he you know, apparently you don't care.
You just ignore him now and continue to scream at
the TV. He can lease it's wildly triggerating for him.

Speaker 1 (01:53):
That's where he could go. I mean, I.

Speaker 2 (01:55):
Understand that this, you know that that kind of behavior
could be problematic for you, But I mean, but when
you're directing it at the sporting event and not at you,
and it would be one thing I think if like
you're anger, because I've had this. I've had it where
my team lost and I was mad the rest of
the day at everything, So that that's like something you'd

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have to have under control, you know, like if your
team loses and then you're just you know, sort of
lashing out on people because you're in a bad mood.
You know, any for any reason that you're in a
bad mood. You go to work, have bad day at work,
you don't get a promotion, you I don't know, lost something,
your headphones got stolen, Yeah, and then take it out
on hobby all the rest of the day.

Speaker 1 (02:32):
Like that's not cool.

Speaker 2 (02:33):
But I mean, if I'm if I'm emotional about whatever
I'm consuming, whatever content I'm consuming, should that is that
something that my partner can say like, hey, I mean
I can't do that. I need you to stop doing
that because well, it brings up something from my path.

Speaker 3 (02:51):
See I'm somebody who also doesn't like the yelling, and like, yeah,
it does for me.

Speaker 1 (02:54):
Its sparks little something in me.

Speaker 3 (02:56):
It's just my own personal issue that I'm dealing with
as far as like childhood and the yelling and stuff.
But I just want to know you know I such
straight men are weird or wherever you said. Minute, I
want to know why men love being cheerleaders so hard
on weekends.

Speaker 1 (03:08):
It's for these sports events.

Speaker 3 (03:09):
Like I'm so serious, Like I'm so tired of people
yelling and screaming over teams, Like it's not like you're playing,
like how you are not playing on the Cubs, Like
you know what I mean.

Speaker 1 (03:16):
But you would think the passion, No, I thought he
was a Cubs player.

Speaker 3 (03:20):
You would think with the way my basement looks, and
like just the way that like he's got out the
jerseys and the hats and the bottle heads, but like.

Speaker 1 (03:26):
I those from all his teammates.

Speaker 3 (03:28):
You think I want to freak out every time I
just see him even watch a game, because to me,
it bothers me, Like this is not real.

Speaker 1 (03:36):
It's an outsider.

Speaker 2 (03:36):
Like if you were just to look at dudes watching
sports and like how they were act watching sports and
it's very interesting and I'm not and they can't hear you.
It's like you're not even there. If you're a scream,
if you're a game and you're getting into it, I mean,
at least they could hear you a little.

Speaker 1 (03:53):
Bit, right, you're at an event like that word see the.

Speaker 2 (03:56):
Problem, Like, I mean, I see a problem. If it's
that triggering for you, Can I tone down my enthusiasm
my screaming at the television? Yeah, I think I probably can.
Or can I just move it to a different venue?
Maybe you know, like, hey, you don't like that, Okay,
maybe maybe you're you don't hang out in the house
while I watch the game, or maybe I watch some
of the games somewhere else and then we don't have
to do that. But I mean, I'm directing it at

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the TV, like I don't know, I'm into it.

Speaker 1 (04:20):
I'm passionate about him.

Speaker 2 (04:22):
I mean, you watch a Bad Money concert, You're yelling
and screaming and freaking out. You get an emotional reaction
from watching that form of entertainment that's not stimulus at
the events.

Speaker 3 (04:31):
When I'm there at the concert, if I'm in my
living groom, might be all shake a lit last, But I'm
not gonna like scream.

Speaker 1 (04:38):
You can't see you shake ass even there. I'm not
hurting anybody.

Speaker 2 (04:41):
But I don't think you're necessarily hurting anyone by getting
into a game. But you're looking at the TV. I'm
not like Hey, moron, my team didn't score.

Speaker 1 (04:51):
I hate you. I mean, that's different. That'll be way different.

Speaker 2 (04:55):
I mean, I think it's difference between me annoying and
being like, you shouldn't do it.

Speaker 1 (05:00):
Nobody.

Speaker 3 (05:01):
I don't have this problem in my house, but my
nephew with the video game is it's the next It's
next level.

Speaker 1 (05:06):
Like he's screaming at the TV. He's yelling at the
people on it, the Wendy's head set. He's cursing. It's like,
you gotta relax, bro, Like, I don't know what's going
on on. You know what are you playing? Yeah? Yeah,
I don't know what's going on. But it doesn't need
all that.

Speaker 2 (05:22):
I'm more concerned about who they're talking to exactly that
I am about who they're yelling at. I mean, they
yelling and getting into it whatever, But who is this
person on the other end, especially for kids, Yeah, like,
are you talking to some strangers somewhere? I've seen the
ketchup reredator to.

Speaker 4 (05:36):
Me, he tes, Hey, what's going on?

Speaker 1 (05:39):
Your husband screams at the TV?

Speaker 4 (05:41):
Yes, he does every single week, and when his team
is on, he has to watch the start of the
whole game plus highlights if his team doesn't win, it
puts a damper on our whole day. It is the
most annoying thing, and our dogs always gets so scared.

Speaker 2 (06:01):
Well see now, but the whole affecting his mood for
the rest of the day. Like that's one thing that's
a fair argument that, Like, dude, I mean, why do
I have you don't take it out of me? What's
sixteen eighteen weeks a year, or however many games there
are for your team, Like that's that's not cool. But
if he wants to get into a sporting event because
he's passionate about it and he wants a team to

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wait and like that's his release for him or something,
then I guess I don't see what you know. I
don't see how we can't come up with boundaries for
that or or why that that activity has to necessarily,
you know, immediately puts me in the same realm as
someone who was sadly maybe abusive or or very unkind
to you.

Speaker 4 (06:40):
Like he's never unkind to me, but he just gets
so into the games, and I just I'm not a
big sports person and I just don't understand it's just
a game.

Speaker 2 (06:50):
Yeah, yeah, Okay, Tessa all right, well I'm sorry that happens,
and go whatever team for him.

Speaker 1 (06:55):
Okay, yeah, woo, okay.

Speaker 2 (06:57):
All right bye, yea, I was very I was just
least on Saturday with the Cubs. But luckily I was
only displeased for about twenty minutes because the whole thing
melted down the first two innings, so you know, I
could move on to other things to be displeased about.

Speaker 1 (07:10):
Your life back after that? Well, did I just I
just stopped watching? Yeah, I got right.

Speaker 2 (07:13):
It's like I was very mad, but then I just
moved on to something else because it happened so fast,
it was it was almost painless because you know, we
got our butts kicked so quickly that it was okay,
you know, but there's always tonight for me to not
be mad again. But again, if I'm not taking it
out on other people, it's just like, okay, well, I'm
sorry that upset you, but like, go go to your
seat shed or your craft room or something. I'm like,

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I don't know, make a friendship bracelet, or I don't know,
there's some pottery or what labor yeah, or I don't know,
maybe you're into something, and go go put the Wendy's
headsets on and go play Grand Theft Onto. What I
don't mean to you know, stereotype or whatever you're into. Like,
let me have my minute here where I think I
have an impact on this game, and I don't. I
have no impact whatsoever. Let me pretend for one second

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like my enthusiasm matters to anyone