🙀 Dedication Or Insanity 🙀

[JolyB]

I remember watching an NFL championship game in (I think) 1967 or so, played in frigid conditions in Green Bay. On the TV coverage, you could see the steam from the fans' breaths rising over the bleachers of Lambeau Field. The temps were worse than 10 below and the wind chill was something like 35 below zero. The game has ever since been referred to as the ice bowl. As I recall, the Cowboys were completely unaccustomed to the extreme cold, and the Packers won on final play quarterback sneak.

More than one announcer suggested that the fans who endured such cold were well fortified against the cold by large amounts of alcohol.

You mention watching the 2 minutes of the KY Derby. But the fans who pay the inflated prices for that privilege probably are at the stadium for the full day of racing, more than three times as long as a typical football game. As you say, to each his/her own.