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I'll never understand the idolatry of athletes. Football in America, soccer in Europe, hockey in Canada. If sports fans spent as much playing sports versus watc
by fatjokes 14y ago
I'll never understand the idolatry of athletes. Football in America, soccer in Europe, hockey in Canada. If sports fans spent as much playing sports versus watching it, the world (especially America) would be in better health.
- jlgreco 14y agoMy thought is that it is a manifestation of a tendency for tribalism that was selected for during the hundreds of thousands of years before modern society made the concept largely obsolete. That would at least explain why people affiliate with teams based on geography, which doesn't make sense to me otherwise. (There have probably been thousands of proper studies on the topic. I have read none of them.)
- Strshps1MoreTim 14y agoProfessional sports are the modern circuses (as in http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bread_and_circuses http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bread_and_circuses ). The powers that be are constantly pushing sports through mainstream media to keep ppl away from the important things in life - power, politics, finance, economy, etc.