What’s with all the sports star tantrums?….
 

Scottie scheffler throws club, tennis stars beating their racket to death, football players throwing bunches, and yet some of our stars shine, like Rickie Fowler, and Jordan Spieth. Seems that the millions sports stars make would help improve their attitude!

Huge amounts of money attracts all types, social media with filtering creates echo chambers of narcissistic feedback. . lack of severe punishments for poor behavior is a hallmark of loss of social values. . parents being friends instead of being parents,

Very simple to answer: The General Public put these people on pedistal, Movie Stars, Sports Stars etc.etc. What happens is these people become " Special " in a very,very Special Way they honestly believe it, why?

Because the Adoring Public put them there. In reality they are Very " Boring & Clueless ".:shocked:

My God! What did that tennis racket ever do him?

Spoiled.

Missed putt or easy volley could cost you thousands. (example Andy Rodrick missed easy volley against Roger Federer to win US open, he never got another match point but Andy didn’t throw no tantrum) Plus top stars don’t pay for equipment, they get paid to play with equipment so it’s nothing to them :1rotfl: Most are spoiled brats anyway that never had work day and some can’t take heat or competition on certain days when things don’t go right and snowballs.

Not sure if that applies to many sports . They work incredibly hard to keep in top shape.

Rickie Fowler and Jordan Spieth are not good examples to cite. Both have thrown tantrums on the golf course. Google it.

I suppose better a thrown golf club that a battered spouse.

Very few never thrown fit on camera? Back in day growing up Borg was one of worst until he got coach that wouldn’t put up with it and changed his demeanor. On tour he was called iceman he had no expression from good point or bad one. For some pressure too great and they explode?

I’ve known several Average Joes who throw nasty tantrums when they are playing sports. Bad behavior isn’t exclusive to the “BIGS.”
The only difference is that they are on TV.

Personally I can understand some of that behavior. Pro or not, their job can be so intensive and their income depends on their success. So many 'game of inches' etc. Putts miss by 1/4", bad call by umpires, Noises on the tennis court. And of course injuries and such. A few of those and one's career suffers or is over. All that practice, all those workouts. So I tend to give them a break most times. So intense esp at the highest levels. So few excel.

Working out and working hard are two different things. I would love to have spent my time working out to stay in shape for big money.

I was told once that we average Joes are not good enough to get mad!:laugh:

I don't give them a break. All the players in the games have the same situation at one point of another and only a few juvenile types, acting poorly, take the time to act out for the audience. A great golfer comes to mind... Jack Nicklaus. Nicklaus always emphasized that any display of anger, like breaking a club, should be reserved for the locker room after a round, not on the course. Class, integrity are getting harder to come by now.

I'm glad I've never heard of anyone mentioned so far. Maybe that's why they have to throw a tantrum and try for more attention?

When Jack was 11, his father had an ankle injury and was advised to walk as therapy, so he started golfing again after having given up the game. He brought his son with him, and a career was born. That summer, his father observed Jack with his friends throwing clubs after a bad shot. He told young Jack that if he ever saw him throw a club, he'd never play golf again.

But funny to mention anger being reserved for the locker room. Too bad Wyndam Clark didn't wait until he had left the clubhouse.

Wyndam Clark isn't worth mentioning in my eyes and at least he had his childish tantrum out of the view of many. When you're on the court, field or course with TV exposure, millions are usually watching. Good on Jack's Dad, what a fine example of a man.

If you haven't heard of Scottie Scheffler, you don't follow professional golf, right?

All anyone needs to do for a first hand account on what it's like for " Sports " people to feel really, really " Special " ?

Take a wander over to " Lake Miona " Pickleball Courts on any weekday morning and get an Eye Opener First Hand Look See on how Special Sports People are Really Like, those Pickleball Players are absolutely in Love with themselves.:bowdown:

Burnsed & Rohan usually on any given weekend on certain courts are similar.

The difference ??? Once they leave the Pickleball Courts they are .....?????barf

My tantrum expletive is “Fiddlee-Dee”, Really!

Narcissistic Prima Donnas behaving badly. What else is new?

It's a job that makes them millions. For millions I'd rip your throat out in competition

How many folks commenting on this thread, have made their living playing a professional sport and followed around for hours by TV Cameras, while performing their competitive job?


.... that's what I thought.

Lack of severe punishment
 

Nail on the head.......

Hockey is a joke.......fighting allowed, why not football or basketball............watched a bruins game and with 30 seconds left a fight started...it's like fake time wrestling...Russians play hockey, Americans play brawl to entertain

Referees need to start pulling players off the field or court for bad actions, give them a 5 minute time out and then toss them for a repeat performance..........

Golf is the ultimate pressure cooker..........at least fights don't breakout
true emotion does but with a lid on it.......thankfully

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How many talk about investments and some firm makes all the decisions? That’s what I thought :024:

There is a huge difference between an individual sport, like golf or tennis, and a team sport, like football or baseball. I prefer to watch an individual sport because of the increased pressure on the players. In golf, you don't have a contract, so you must perform or not get paid.

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Golf, darts, bowling, chest, ect… all on Individuals, nobody to blame but themselves if they can’t preform.

Please tell me why all these emotional displays are ok, except for Scottie Scheffler's.

If one can't tell the difference between celebrating a victory or acting like a spoiled brat when things don't go their way, I can't help.

Average Joes do get angry and throw things. Especially in individual sports (as opposed to team sports) where there is more tension. When playing a sport like singles tennis, if you lose, then you have only yourself to blame. With team sports you can rationalize a loss by saying that you yourself played well, but some other person on your team played terribly. A young athlete can rationalize a loss by saying that they will keep getting better. A Senior athlete has the additional pressure that he/she will be losing skill as they age. A person in the Villages could be one of the best at say 55 years old and then just average at 60. Fortunately, in some Village sports, like softball which has 5 skill levels, a player can start out at a top level and as they age, they can end up in level 5. After that it's just card games, bowling, and golf.

Yes, mental pressure is MUCH greater in Tennis.

I'm sick of all this BS celebrating in the end zone, etc. Back in the day when I had dolphin tickets in the 70s, when someone scored a touchdown, they just threw the ball on the ground or to the ref, and there was no dancing no high-fiving no nothing. Too many Prima'Donna's ow

Yeah, if they're mental midgets. That old cliche comes to mind, "it's not brain surgery..".

not ok, none of the behaviors, because we hold them to a higher standard of sportsmanship than we do ourselves as amateurs. . . however, you pay for sports entertainment, as that is what sports are, entertainment. . . and what defines acceptable entertainment will always be up for debate, especially between social classes. .

in your professional career, at a desk job, do you throw chairs? turn over desks? break glass? maybe if you were mob, or mafia. . .

I will say, the best display of anger i experience by a boss, was my second year on the job as a third mate, deck officer on an old oil tanker. We were cleaning the tanks, and I approached the chief mate, first officer, and gave him a message. . . He didn't like the message, didn't say anything, and took his half full old porcelain coffee mug and threw it onto the steel deck gracefully, shattering it at my feet . . .

There is a perceived difference between inside jobs and outside jobs, like inside voices and outside voices. . . between blue collar and white collar, etc. . and there will always be premadonna azzholes. . .

Correct... I remember the Redskins veterans telling the rookies (wjen they scored a touchdown) to "act like you've been there before"...

Riggins used to simply drop the football after scoring a touchdown and then head back to the sidelines... A true professional (but a bit crazy off the field...) :jester:

I see. So it's okay to display emotion, when it involves victory or smashing an opponent, but not when disappointed in one's own performace?

& how is that?

In Tennis, your opponent is across the net from you. All you have to do, is beat that person.

In golf, your opponents are harder to identify. The golf course. The weather. The wind. Oneself.

Tennis is a reactive sport, as are most sports other than golf. Golf is like gymnastics, diving or other sports where the impetus for action, is one's own brain. Exponentially more difficult.