There are a lot of things that bug me in life just because they don't make sense. The whole hotdogs coming in packs of ten while the buns come in packs of eight issue, the fact candy corn tastes nothing like regular corn, and then there's the question of who keeps green lighting Saw movies? Seriously, how many different ways to you need to see someone get hacked up?

The world of sports is not absent of such problems and is actually filled with things that just don't make sense to me. Here are a few of them.

1. Why do people who get upset when you don't like their favorite team and/or cheer for their rival? I don't get it. I'm sure you've met this person as well. It's the guy who wouldn't care if you dropped some kind of off color racist joke or completely insulted the elderly, but once he finds out you hate the Cowboys and would thoroughly enjoy punching Tony Romo in the throat, he flips. Why does he care? Doesn't that just mean there will be more silver and blue hoodies out there for him? Maybe I'm alone on this, but I would actually prefer less people, especially stupid ones, to cheer on my teams. It makes me feel like I've tapped into some type of elite secret.

2. Why do professional sports take the opinion that longer seasons and more games is always a good thing? The NCAA tournament, the NFL, and the NBA playoffs are all constantly making their seasons drag out longer and longer, thinking we all love it.

I look to my buffet theory on this one. Food at a buffet is never as good as menu ordered food. It's made in mass quantities, slapped under a heat lamp, and then picked through by everyone else at the restaurant. Sure you can slam enough of that neon yellow mac-and-cheese to make you puke, but don't tell me its the same quality as that single dish your grandma made.

Its the same way with sports. Sure it sounds nice at first when you hear there will be more games, but when you get to the end of the season and the last three weeks are filled with you watching third stringers duke it out, don't tell me you aren't flipping away. At the quantity increase the quality almost always decreases.

3. Why are multiple stock car teams in the same series owned by the same person or group of people? Right now a single owner can have up to four cars running at one time. Would this fly any another sport? Could you ever imagine the day when Mark Cuban owns the Mavs, Bulls, Blazers, and Suns? No way, the conspiracy theorists would be running wild. Nascar is the only sport where you ever hear of people being fans of the owners more so than the actual players, or drivers in this case. People pull for Hendrick or Yates Racing all the time. Can you even image a person ever rocking a Jerry Buss shirt? Granted there are a lot of reason why the public has lost interest in the sport, but I think the multi-car team branding is a big part of it.

4. Why do people applaud when a player from the opposing team leaves the field with an injury? Now before you call me a jerk for this one hear me out. How many times have you sat at a game and listen to fans screaming "Hit him! Plant him in the ground! Crush him! or Kill him?" But then as soon as the guy goes down with an ankle sprain they get quiet and then as he is helped off they give him a nice little golf clap. What gives? You want the dude crushed, but it makes you tear up to see him roll an ankle? Correct me if I'm wrong but I just spent 30 minutes listening to you chant about knocking him out of the game and then when it happens you're suddenly Clara Barton. It just makes no sense.

5. Why does it take an act of God to change a rule in the sports world? Most sports are what, a 100 or so years old and yet we act like the rules for them were brought down my Moses on two stones. I could easily do an entire post on all the rules that should be changed, MLB replay, NFL overtime, etc., however my point is more of why the process of fixing things takes so long.

Its like if a town noticed they needed a stop sign near a school because accidents kept happening there, but rather than just put up the sign and see if it fixes the problem they say, "well its been that way so long, let's just wait till the end of the year and then talk about it. We can't just go finding solutions mid-year and confusing everybody."

If something could be switched or changed to fix an issue, why not just go ahead and try it?  Why not go ahead and try more replay in baseball, a better overtime rule in the NFL, or even, dare I say, a college football playoff? If it sucks you can always switch back, but this dragging you heals act for the sake of tradition act is getting old.

Honorable mentions:
Why does so much team sports apparel suck?

Why is Lou Holtz on my TV?