Why can't you guys

[greencom]

Rock on greemcom, go tell them!

Thank you, I'll keep trying to get through to them!
Greencom

[Polite24]

Greencom, why do you have issues when people choose to spend their free time doing activities that aren't 100% intellectual?

As you may have read in my earlier posts I mentioned that I believe in physical fitness and don't mind an occasional mindless game of basketball at a party. Society has taught a person to feel uncool and friendless if he or she does not take sports seriously enough. Smart people are the only hope this world has for a brighter future. I don't expect people to engage only in intellectual activities but most people NEVER engage in them, that's why we are dumbed down and rank below most industrialized countries in the world in terms of math and science talent. Sports is entertainment and nothing more, why do YOU take it so seriously? Sports is fluff, pointless fluff. How are you going to earn a good living in the future by spending so much of your free time playing and watching stupid ball games? We are becoming another third world country because the public worships sweaty morons and pays them millions of dollars to watch them play with balls, that's what pisses me off! We will all suffer because of this but you will never understand that.
Greencom

Millions of people have made a living using things they learned from watching and playing games.

[SportsGuy92]

Greencom, why do you have issues when people choose to spend their free time doing activities that aren't 100% intellectual?

As you may have read in my earlier posts I mentioned that I believe in physical fitness and don't mind an occasional mindless game of basketball at a party. Society has taught a person to feel uncool and friendless if he or she does not take sports seriously enough. Smart people are the only hope this world has for a brighter future. I don't expect people to engage only in intellectual activities but most people NEVER engage in them, that's why we are dumbed down and rank below most industrialized countries in the world in terms of math and science talent. Sports is entertainment and nothing more, why do YOU take it so seriously? Sports is fluff, pointless fluff. How are you going to earn a good living in the future by spending so much of your free time playing and watching stupid ball games? We are becoming another third world country because the public worships sweaty morons and pays them millions of dollars to watch them play with balls, that's what pisses me off! We will all suffer because of this but you will never understand that.
Greencom

While some people do get into sports way too much, among other problems, the harm that they do to society is far outweighed by the benefits they provide. Think of a hypothetical situation where sports would disappear all together. Enormous amounts of people who work in fields such as teams' front office and stadium staff and sporting goods, as well as industries that indirectly benefit from sports such as hotels, restaurants, and advertising just to name a few would become unemployed. Also, your argument that sports have affected America's progress as a nation is untrue. The time when America was at its strongest politically, militarily, industrially, and economically compared to other countries was in the first half of the 20th century, or probably more accurately, the 20th century until the Vietnam War. However, at this time, sports were also more popular in America than in other countries. So, the fact that the USA now lags behind as far as math and science is more due to the fact that other countries have caught up, possibly by using better educational methods, than anything involving sports.

[SportsGuy92]

sports are utterly awful! i cant stand them! what is the big deal about them? kicking round a ball requires no talent at all, why does this world have to acknowledge such lack of talent in such an extreme way? these people get paid millions of bucks for nothing! nothing! the 1980s are so much better than sports. sports suck, we should all go and listen to "jump" by van halen instead! great music is proper entertainment. they can stick stinkin' sports!

and by the way to you sports bores comin on here raining on our parade... we can do wat we want! it's our board, not urs. so sod off unless you have something real interesting to say other than "oh, why can't you like sports?"

Van Halen is a good band, I'll give you that much, but don't say that sports require no talent at all.

[Sergey]

They require no skill. You can't talk back to me regardless.