Many college students, especially those with a knack for rowdier lifestyles, know what a nuissance it is to deal with a broken phone. I have a friend who’s had this issue, but while most would break their phones dropping it or leaving it somewhere dangerous, my friend took it a step further. He broke his phone by throwing it because he was angry his favorite team, the Chicago Cubs, were losing in the playoffs. Now because he was so angry over a Cubs game, he can’t tell who’s calling him anymore, because he can’t see past the dark monochromatic crack that stretches across his cell phone screen, and from the looks of the sports fans around me, he’s probably not alone.

Anyone who’s been in a room full of people watching the MLB playoffs or the Packers playing through their season can probably attest to the amount of yelling and screaming that goes on in the room.

I don’t know what it is about an interception that makes fans want to shout feverently like mad barbarians, but it seems like the behavior is excessive in most cases.

It’s difficult to wrap the mind around the fact that someone could get that angry over a single event that usually bears no actual effect on that person’s life.

This eccentric behavior is especially bizzarre when compared to the way some of these fans act outside of their relationship to sports. Some of these people could go through any number of negative events, ranging from being broken up with to failing a test to losing their job, and they won’t be nearly as infuriated as they would be had their favorite rightfielder dropped a pop fly in the ninth.

It seems perhaps many fans need to take a different outlook on the sports they love to watch, possibly one less infuriating. After all, it is just a game. Granted the Cubs were lucky to make the playoffs this year, but that’s besides the point.