As someone that in highschool played both football and did robotics club, I think there was more comraderie in football, despite more of my long term friends do

As someone that in highschool played both football and did robotics club, I think there was more comraderie in football, despite more of my long term friends doing robotics club. Robotics club, science fairs and programming clubs were fun, but they were just more academics. Football and other sports were a different kind of fun. They are more basic traditionally masculine fun. You do hard things like running and hitting people and you get yelled at, but it builds a shared bond that is much deeper. You also are able to let go on a sports team in a way you can't with an academic club. You don't have any girls you need to worry about, you don't have to keep clean or anything.