Non-ignorant athlete/sports fan here- please read

[Polite24]

You make it seem as if sports fans have been fooled or tricked into liking sports.

[greencom]

You make it seem as if sports fans have been fooled or tricked into liking sports.

No, I would say they have been conditioned. Like Ray said they did not invent baseball or football or whatever but growing up with it makes it seem like an essential activity. I grew up thinking speaking English and living in America was the only natural way for a person to exist. As I matured I realized I was wrong. Sports fans never seem to mature, to them sports is the only worthwhile activity to pursue, they remain children. Grow up.

Greencom

[Ray]

yeah.. they're sort of intellectually lazy or lack ambition.. they just go with the flow.

[Sergey]

Omg, why do people think sports could beat video games? Video games beat sports.

[Polite24]

Some of the biggest video games out there are sports games.

[Sergey]

Not really. Sports games are boring as hell...

[Earl]

Here's another problem I have with some people here. Many of you like to believe you are superior to sports fans because you don't "follow the crowd" and you "resist the influence of the common herd", as it says on the front page of this website.

What you say may be true. As I said before, I don't feel superior to people just because they're sports fans. My older daughter was a Texas Tech football fan up to her graduation this year (and I assume that she still is). However -- and I hate to say this -- more than a few coaches and athletes believe that nonathletes are inferior to athletes. I once came across a website that had been set up by a guy who had played football in high school. He said that one day he was at a fast-foot restaurant where he heard a local high-school football coach say that athletes were "a better class of people" than nonathletes. To his credit, he was appalled by the coach's comment.

When I was in the 8th grade, an incompetent psychologist sent me to a judo instructor to take judo lessons. (For those of you who have already read these comments in previous posts, please excuse me for repeating them.) He was not Asian, but was a white guy who had played football at a university in Texas. I always felt like an outsider in his judo class, and eventually dropped out after three years had passed. Eight years later I looked him up and found out that the reason I had felt like an outsider in his judo class was because he had viewed me as an outsider. He claimed that he had "saved (me) from homosexuality," which is absolutely ludicrous because you can't save someone from something he doesn't want to do unless it's about to be forced upon him against his will. Simply because I was a physically weak boy who would not strike back at bullies since I had no self-confidence, he assumed that I must have homosexual tendencies (which is a particularly vile stereotype, as far as I'm concerned, even in this day and age). I should have told him to go soak his head, but I didn't dare because he was a violent man. I also learned from his remarks that he considered only athletes and perhaps men in a few blue-collar vocations to be "real men." He even denigrated Dr. Andrei Sakharov -- the "father of the Soviet H-bomb" who had become an outspoken, courageous dissident against the cruel repression of the Soviet regime -- because he did not consider him to be a "real man." Amazingly, he was not impressed with Sakharov's courage. (As Dave Barry says in his columns, I'm not making this up.) Excuse me for going into all that detail, but I wanted to give another example of how ludicrous this attitude is. I don't believe that nonathletes are inferior to athletes, or vice versa. I admire individuals, not groups. So, this bad attitude of supposed superiority is on both sides. Not meaning to be confrontational.

[Ray]

I agree completely, Earl. As we all know from direct experience, jackass jocks are MUCH more likely to suffer from superiority complexes! (which is an ironic paradox)

We who actually ARE superior merely cope with the social ostracism that that lonely state invites. It's no fun being superior, let me tell you!

[Earl]

Thanks for agreeing with me, Ray. But, seriously, I don't consider myself to be superior.

[Ray]

I know --I was just messing with you. I know that you, of all people, do NOT consider yourself to be superior to sports fans (and possibly anyone else). I stand corrected.

I, on the other hand, by virtue of my individuality and the authority invested in me, am CLEARLY and ABUNDANTLY superior to ANY and ALL sports fans.

So help me God.

[Polite24]

Not really. Sports games are boring as hell...

Lol, yeah, in your opinion. Doesn't change the fact that sports games are pretty big.

[greencom]

Thanks for agreeing with me, Ray. But, seriously, I don't consider myself to be superior.

Wrong Earl, you are superior.
Greencom

[greencom]

Not really. Sports games are boring as hell...

Lol, yeah, in your opinion. Doesn't change the fact that sports games are pretty big.

So, what does that prove?
Greencom

[Sergey]

Not really. Sports games are boring as hell...

Lol, yeah, in your opinion. Doesn't change the fact that sports games are pretty big.

No. The ones on Steam got mixed reviews.

[Sergey]

Not really. Sports games are boring as hell...

Lol, yeah, in your opinion. Doesn't change the fact that sports games are pretty big.

So, what does that prove?
Greencom

It isn't true. They aren't even close to big.