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> Don't you think any kind of challenge in a team setting would have provided the same growth without the side effect of possibly irreversible brain damage? Di
by tnecniv 9y ago
> Don't you think any kind of challenge in a team setting would have provided the same growth without the side effect of possibly irreversible brain damage?
Different sports are different. I don't think that's hard to believe.
I ran track and cross country for 9 years. Those are team sports but there was no camaraderie. People were friendly, sure, but there was no team spirit. There was more camaraderie in the half a year I spent on a rowing team than I experienced in either of those sports.
- kelnos 9y agoSure, but I think the comparison would be easy to make among sports with a similar team dynamic, like between football and soccer, rugby, basketball, etc. Players of the latter sports train and practice just as much (if in different ways) as football players, and the game dynamics of all of them require coordination and teamwork to a similar enough degree that any differences aren't earth-shattering. It's a bit ridiculous to me to suggest that there is nothing like football when it comes to training, teamwork, and camaraderie. That's easily not true.