I am under 30, and pretty much everyone I interact with on a daily basis is under 30. I asked a bunch of people in the past few days about this since the article was posted, and not a single one said video games was a sport, or even close. A handful laughed and thought I was joking. Obviously this is not at all…

They have TVs because “traditional” sports bars are often incredibly loud and overcrowded and generally shitty. The best kind of bars are those that are normal, nice places to go to if you just want to get a few drinks and talk to friends, but can also go to watch a big game at in relative comfort.

Aaron Hernandez = Mike Vick?

“I have never once in my life understood why people are sad after their local sports team loses. It seemed to be an unnecessary emotional burden people very intentionally took on. Why? Did these people not know there are sadder things to be sad about? Were they unable to channel their inner sadness into other things?…

Finally, something resembling an actual answer. I think the televisable angle is probably right, and there are things being called “sports” in these comments that I would bet all my money that 90% of the population would not consider a sport (someone said chess is a sport!!!)

Yeah, fair enough. I’d be curious to somehow see some data on the overlap. Doubt that anyone cares enough to fund that type of research, though.

I’m not close minded—I didn’t even come down with a strong idea. I came in with one take (this article was bad and patronizing towards sports fans) and one set of questions, about the origins of and reasons behind video games being grouped in with, and branded as a “sport”. And again, as I said before—I’m an Overwatch…

No. You have it backwards. If I bang my shoe against the wall for 5 minutes as fast as I can and call it Plankton-Sports, that doesn’t make it a sport.

Yeah, I said we know why the participants may want to view themselves as real “sports players”, because it’s cool, popular, money, and all that. But that doesn’t mean they are. And my original point was on a much more macro level, particularly thinking about how it’s being marketed.

Well you just responded to my so-called strawman with an infinitely bigger strawman—you are talking about the EVENT, not the game itself being played.

Yeah, I guess that’s part of my point—why does the video game world WANT it to be a sport? And who cares if it is? There’s no scoreboard in the sky that grants you anything if you can get the world to accept something as “a sport”. I mean, I guess we know why—the major sports are “cool”, and popular, and make money.…

That’s a pretty good point, but again, you could describe a board game in the same way (regarding positions). Finding small overlaps between any two random activities is pretty easy.

Man, I can’t believe he signed with the Flyers in 2011. Doesn’t seem like it was that long ago.

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.

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”.

2 very different and probably dumb questions:

Uh cause it was dope

A great car for sure, but I’m not sure why someone wouldn’t pay 5k less and just get a Civic.

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You are definitely not from the east coast or Northeast at the very least...Philly area calls it a hoagie. Some parts of New England call it a grinder.