Watching sports is a perfectly fine method of entertainment on its own, but I have two problems with it as a whole:
1. Dominance of sports culture is distracting to students in high school and college, and acts as a money sink. Playing sports is great, but I'm not sure why we subsidize it so much (talking about competitive teams here, not intramurals/PE).
2. The degree to which many people (obviously not most sports watchers, but a substantial minority) are obsessed with sports and tie up their identity in a given team is just insane. People will legit get angry about their team losing or having bad calls or whatnot, to the extent that sports riots or getting in fights because you liked the wrong team in the wrong place is a real thing. That's crazy!
1. Dominance of sports culture is distracting to students in high school and college, and acts as a money sink. Playing sports is great, but I'm not sure why we subsidize it so much (talking about competitive teams here, not intramurals/PE).
2. The degree to which many people (obviously not most sports watchers, but a substantial minority) are obsessed with sports and tie up their identity in a given team is just insane. People will legit get angry about their team losing or having bad calls or whatnot, to the extent that sports riots or getting in fights because you liked the wrong team in the wrong place is a real thing. That's crazy!