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Ok, I'll bite. Why is sport not intellectually interesting?

• makeitdouble 5y ago
  This kind of reaction seem to stem from past moderation choices where sport legend deaths’ submissions have been pretty much deleted as off-topic.
• throw7 5y ago
  My bad. It was a rhetorical question. I don't find anything intellectually interesting about madden though and I suppose that's why I got a little snippy. Supposedly "Hacker News" is intellectually interesting news for "Hackers". I'm not convinced this is. edit: I see am I getting a ton of downvotes, I suppose there's a lot of american football fans on "Hacker News".
  • topkai22 5y ago
    As covered elsewhere, John Madden’s partnership with EA created one of the most important (and profitable) video game franchises in history. He was/is literally the face of the “sports video game.” That’s relevant to this forum. As for sports, while you can not find it interesting personally it’s clear it is interesting to a huge number of people. The consequences and study of that should be interesting in and of itself.