I skimmed some of the articles and found it disappointing that some people feel so strongly against sports.
As a child, I also didn't like sports - mainly because I was asthmatic, unable to (or so I thought), and therefore apathetic to it.
As a teenager, as my asthma receded, I came to enjoy sports. Now, practising martial arts, I really see the value in always pushing and analysing oneself, and likewise, pushing others, competing, and analysing them to see how I can overcome them. Meanwhile, I hope and expect they are doing the same.
Experiences like those that the gay high school football player suffered ( http://www.sportssuck.org/gayfootball.htm ) do make me understand how some people can come to dislike sports though... however, it's not the sport to blame here, but a cruel culture of intolerance.
Most of the articles seem to be specifically against team sports and the associated mass hysteria and jingoism. At the professional level, I somewhat agree (much more interested in one-on-one sports), but banning it from schools is a bit of an overreaction...
And that German logo at the bottom just looks plain wrong.
People need to accept that not every form of entertainment is intended for them. Adopting, for the moment, Brave New World-type classification, some forms of entertainment are aimed at alphas and betas, while others are aimed more at deltas and epsilons. For an alpha to complain about the stupidity of the entertainment aimed at epsilons, or an epsilon to complain about the incomprehensibility of the entertainment aimed at alphas, is unseemly; he should instead be glad that people are producing entertainment which he does enjoy.
If you're out there complaining about team sports, or American Idol, or Tyler Perry movies, or Justin Bieber (whoever he is) then you're either (a) missing the point, or (b) trying to engage in status signalling that you're not the intellectual demographic at which these things are aimed. However, by making such a signal you imply that you're worried about being confused with such people, which is in itself a negative status signal.
So in conclusion, complaining about forms of entertainment that you don't enjoy is an enormous waste of time and makes you look bad.
Sports are fun... there is something to be said for living and dying with 70,000 other people over something as insignificant as game. That's the point the anti-sports crowd (like my wife;>) never seem to get. We know it's 'just a game'. We know it's something we have no control over. We KNOW it's all quite meaningless in the grand scheme of things.
We just don't care. It's one of the few things in life that allows me to be completely irrational and thrilled to death about it.
But we think there is something wrong when people base their lives on the outcome of a game.
I think they have the right to do whatever the hell they want, as long as it doesn't hurt anyone.
The real reason these guys hate sports is not because they think it's irrational to "base your life on the outcome of a game", it's because they suck at sports.
Little of what is on that site has to do with hating sports as pure games involving physical activity. Rather it seems the common theme (from my albeit brief inspection of the articles and forum) is the hate for the jock culture. And it seems the jock culture that many of these people have experienced is one of bullying. So instead of sportssuck.com, this site should really be renamed bullyingsucks.com.
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As a teenager, as my asthma receded, I came to enjoy sports. Now, practising martial arts, I really see the value in always pushing and analysing oneself, and likewise, pushing others, competing, and analysing them to see how I can overcome them. Meanwhile, I hope and expect they are doing the same.
Experiences like those that the gay high school football player suffered ( http://www.sportssuck.org/gayfootball.htm ) do make me understand how some people can come to dislike sports though... however, it's not the sport to blame here, but a cruel culture of intolerance.
And that German logo at the bottom just looks plain wrong.
However, I love carrying on about meaningless rivalries in social settings, just so everyone is rather tongue-in-cheek about it.
"We are not unreasonable or intolerant people."
Um, OK. Nuff said.
If you're out there complaining about team sports, or American Idol, or Tyler Perry movies, or Justin Bieber (whoever he is) then you're either (a) missing the point, or (b) trying to engage in status signalling that you're not the intellectual demographic at which these things are aimed. However, by making such a signal you imply that you're worried about being confused with such people, which is in itself a negative status signal.
So in conclusion, complaining about forms of entertainment that you don't enjoy is an enormous waste of time and makes you look bad.
We just don't care. It's one of the few things in life that allows me to be completely irrational and thrilled to death about it.
I think they have the right to do whatever the hell they want, as long as it doesn't hurt anyone.
The real reason these guys hate sports is not because they think it's irrational to "base your life on the outcome of a game", it's because they suck at sports.
Really? THAT is the point you want to finish on?