Hurm, this piece trades in so much befuddlement and concludes with I get you sports fans, except for you dumb sports fans—I’m not quite sure what to take from it, whether it’s a pose or not. I guess it’s lighthearted, but I think of how defensive this site would be if it was actually an critique of esports (whose…

I Think I Understand Sports Fan Now

Both are real-time reflex and skill based competitions in which strategy, teamwork and individual skill all meet to see which team can accomplish an arbitrary goal within an arbitary set of rules more completely within an arbitrary time limit.

The premise of these kind of articles always involves some level of obtuseness from the writer, as if they are incapable of understanding why people might root or cheer for something, anything really. It’s a pretty basic emotion and feeling, and one has to go out of there way to claim they don’t understand this basic…

So you didn’t understand having a passion for something until your passions became mainstream?

If this article was written to continue to erase the divide between Deadspin and Compete/Kotaku it isn’t working. The tone is sophmoric, the article is devoid of a real point and I find it hard to believe that someone who…

This article comes across as unbelievably patronizing and you successfully push people who like sports into a box with every possible bad stereotype connected to “jocks”.