HA. So something that harms no one but the players, who voluntarily play said games, is bad.
Dude, I played 2 sports in college, and got the privilege to tryout professionally for sports. Nothing about me is generic. What I can see from this conversation is you have some deep seated psychological hatred towards sports, and people who enjoy them.
I’d recommend you talk to a professional so this doesn’t keep eating at you.
Lol sure thing tech bro.
People have a right to leisure activities. You belittling them just makes you look petty.
Are people going to watch the refs? They sure as hell aren’t getting paid the big bucks, most of them do it part time.
Coaches make money, but again, it’s a fraction of total revenue.
I find it funny you’re literally attacking ‘the workers’ in this case, just because it’s athletes and not traditional workers.
I still regularly play baseball and ice hockey. I do martial arts as part of my job (I work in stunts in LA), and I love going hiking and staying healthy.
But sure, watching people actually do things with their body and playing a game somehow is just a foreign fucking concept to people on this site.
Would you rather people watch video game competitions or something in their spare time?
Lmao.
It only looks easy because you clearly have never spent a single second trying to understand it. What would you rather people do? Watch skinny kids with vitamin D deficiencies play video games? 🤣
It’s significantly lower than other types of workers.
There are less than 1700 players in the NFL for all the teams. The NFLs revenue for last year was 24 billion dollars.
Total salaries for the NFL is like 5.x billion dollars, and in addition to that, the players are the sole revenue generating force in the league.
So yeah, even at their insane salaries they’re still underpaid!
It seems like the tabletop wargaming groups are really dead, so I feel you on this, haha.
You realize that athletes are exceptionally intelligent in different ways than people pecking at a keyboard all day, right?
Athletes are not dumb. Take a look at a football playbook. You going to remember all of that, be able to recall it, and then also know all the audible changes to a play that you have to make? Are you able to make split second decisions for 60 minutes while wearing knives on your feet like a hockey player? Do you have the hand eye coordination to hit a 94 mile per hour fast ball, but know that the pitcher you’re facing also has a 35% chance to throw an 82 mph sinker?
Acting like you have one kind of intelligence and shitting on people who have different kinds of intelligence just makes you look like you’re jealous.
That’s just a byproduct of how popular and in demand sports are for people to consume.
And here’s the kicker. For their worth, athletes are still underpaid for what they bring in the owners.
I’ve been an athlete my whole life. I don’t get why more tech savvy people have this absolute disdain for people who enjoy sports. Like, I get it, maybe some of the athletes at your school picked on you. Sweet. I was an athlete and ALSO got picked on by people. Constantly. I’m in my 30’s now, and stopped dwelling on that shit in college. Move on, you know?
There’s an easier way to just say you suck at physical things.
Posting something like this just makes you look really bitter.
You also disgusted with people obsessed with Warhammer or DND?