Montegriffo wrote:How do you think the men on the pitch were inspired to play football? They watched others playing and thought to themselves ''I'd like to have a go at that''.Speaker to Animals wrote:Montegriffo wrote:
Watching sports inspires people to take part in them. After the London Olympics, sports clubs registered a huge uptake in people wanting to take part. During Wimbleton and for weeks after you cannot find a free tennis court. Watching sports does exactly the opposite of what you claim.
Not here and especially not the fucking NFL, dude. It's like a fucking spiritual, physical, and psychological cancer.
Or did you think SNL's Superfans was made from whole-cloth??
More sports at schools, colleges and on TV is a positive thing.
Go back and read what I posted:
Speaker to Animals wrote:Another way of looking at it.. Lately I have watched gymnastics and calisthenics competitions because I am trying to learn many of those skills. It works because it helps me visualize some distant goal and it motivates me to train. I think watching football all the time would do something similar -- assuming you actually belong to a local football league, train, and play games all the time.
I am talking about the vast majority of people who consume this entertainment all the time in lieu of actual athleticism. Sports entertainment is a way of short-circuiting a man's need for athleticism. It's like saying subconsciously that you fulfilled your need for sports, exercise, and competition by simply watching this game on the television, while eating your chips and drinking a six pack of beer. That's a fucking cancer.
I would rather see us facilitate quite a lot more football leagues for people to just join local teams and compete. I think people would get more out of it if they actually played the sport regularly, and in that case, I doubt it would become the kind of drug that it is for so many now.