To what extent is your happiness/sense of well-being affected by your team's W-L?

[RC Vikings]

WHat if they get on your grass?

I'm not a big keep off my grass kind of guy. I might have to change my answer because when we have our group rides and some young kid kicks my ass going up a hill it makes me very sad. On the other hand when I drop a kid on the flats it makes me very happy.

[happyone]

Since I just admitted tracking my weight in a spreadsheet, I think I left that door wide open.

Well, you are not the only one. I also track my blood sugar and blood pressure in a spreadsheet

[beelzebabette]

Well, you are not the only one. I also track my blood sugar and blood pressure in a spreadsheet

Good. Sounds like you're in the best position to tell SU if your happiness goes down 2.5 or 3.5% after a loss.

[Jarid in Cedar]

Well, you are not the only one. I also track my blood sugar and blood pressure in a spreadsheet

I wish I could get my patient's to do this

[scottie]

Mine has also changed with age. In my teens it was 90-100%, 20s it was 50%, in my 30s it's been 0-5%.

[jay santos]

Not much at all. I'm pretty invested in BYU athletics, but I don't think you could correlate my happiness/sense of well being with BYU's FB and BB W-L over the last 20 years. Maybe for an hour after the game or another day if it's especially joyful or painful?

[SeattleUte]

What is your answer, SU?

As for me, in my college days and into my late 20s a bad loss could ruin my day and leave me sore for one or two more days. Now I'm over it almost immediately - even a loss to BYU in the rivalry game. I enjoy being a fan much more now. One benefit of aging, I guess.

0-1%. I can't say I automatically forget like Creek does. The 1999 NCAA loss to Miiami Ohio still hurts, as does the loss to Kentucky in 1998 (that was more bitter-sweet). The GREAT Ute FINAL FOUR, FIESTA BOWL, and SUGAR BOWL seasons still give me pleasure. Generally it's events on that magnitude that matter. But in the overall scheme of things <1%. That's still meaningful; moreso than chocolate. I'm more proud of the Ute association with Pac 12 schools because of academics than anything else.

[SeattleUte]

I think as much as anything I derive pleasure and pain from associating myself with myself as a youngster when it meant so much more. I'm glad to be experiencing the undefeated seasons, the FINAL FOUR, the BIG BOWLS, that I pined for as a youngster Ute fan. It's like growing up and having Peter Pan finally actually show up and take you to Never Never land.

[Jeff Lebowski]

The influence of sports on my happiness gets smaller and smaller with age.

[byu71]

It was huge, but has gone down dramatically in the last few years. I would say it is all the way down to 1%.

[Babs]

I call BALONEY!!! I was at the game last year and that wasn't no unaffectedness I saw erupt as time expired.

[old_gregg]

So the fact that I'm younger than all of you makes it ok for me to say 20-30%, right?

[TheBYUGuy]

I call BALONEY!!! I was at the game last year and that wasn't no unaffectedness I saw erupt as time expired.

LOL! So in other words, you saw a bunch of grown men crying that their team had just lost to a bunch of not-caring-about-football-because-it-is-my-5th-priority, lily white Mormons? I can't say I blame them.

[Babs]

LOL! So in other words, you saw a bunch of grown men crying that their team had just lost to a bunch of not-caring-about-football-because-it-is-my-5th-priority, lily white Mormons? I can't say I blame them.

Nope. I was sitting on the BYU side. It is already well established that Sooner fans take their football too seriously.

[SeattleUte]

People outside of Robin voting 0% are lying unless they are Robin-like lurkers we don't know.