Add in b.s. like taking a knee during the anthem and men in womens sports, let’s just do away with competive sports.
I agree with everything else, but not this turd of a sentence.
That should be what we in the industry refer to as "a clue."
The sentence about overpaid athletes is even dumber. Sure they're paid well, some of them, because of all the money their sports are earning. The owners are paid much much better. Anyone who's more mad at the athletes than the owners is an idiot.
I did miss the overpayed athelete line. They are entertainers who put their bodies on the line for a short career and deserve every penny they get and more.
Giving them the benefit of the doubt, maybe they meant BS like [transphobes complaining about] men in women's sports?
That is what I assumed they meant.
This just reads like "I don't like this thing and here's the reasons why, let's get rid of it entirely. Also I like guns." What about the folks that don't like guns?
Now they have no sports and no guns.
I'd rather get rid of guns and lower the people getting shot stats, than the "sports fans have done a bollockry again" but no one was killed stats.
Different strokes.
You don’t like to do anything where people compete against each other? Board games? Multiplayer video games?
co-op is always more interesting
I'm all in for the co-op, let's work together type.
Ok. But what are cooperatively opposing? A computer in a game? Fine but that's still a competition. A game by definition means a certain level of competition as a result of being oppositional by nature.
I had this same thought recently about the "divisive oppositional mindset" however I would like to think that for a majority it's an outlet for that competitive instinctual drive. Thus not allowing that mindset to run your everyday life.
As a Canadian, the only way you'll take hockey away is over our collective cold dead bodies. Hockey is practically a religion up here and I wouldn't have it any other way.
And how, praytell, do you propose to enforce this? All it takes to play a game of footie is a field and a ball.
Don't put money towards any of the major sport franchises.
Want to see a game? go to a local lower level league.
NBA/NHL/NFL/etc ... stop going and more importantly stop buying their merchandise.
Want to really stick it to them? Vote for a government that will properly tax the every living SHIT out of these mega franchises.
What are your thoughts on
Competitive rowing?
Competitive lumberjack competitions?
Car Racing? Sailing? Airplane Racing? (involving a piece of equipment)
1 person competitions like Golf?
1 on 1 sports like Tennis?
Maybe your issue isn't the 'competitive' nature?
Maybe your issue isn't the 'sports'?
I suspect your beef is with the over the top American Sport Major Sport Leagues and how they are run.
Definitely unpopular!
It would move to something else.
There used to be riots at the opera and theatre (as in plays not movies).
Bread and circuses.
You imagine a world too beautiful for humans.
Sport sucks, it's boring and teaches kids how to sort people into us vs them based on arbitrary nonsense.
But like belief in divine agency, it's presence across most societies throughout history probably means it's just unfortunately a part of the human experience.
Edit: "men in womens sports": this is absolute garbage that doesn't happen and being worried about it marks you as gullible, hateful and ignorant.
Well run sports programs for kids teach them to work together and challenge themselves. The best even teach ways to handle failure and to grow from practice.
Poorly run ones promote the us vs them and other negative aspects.
The existence of professional sports teaches children how to arbitrarily hate people by sorting them according to team support.
I've always had this opinion... I never got the hype...
I also feel this way about video game streamers to be fair...
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