sports. why are some people so negative towards them?

I am not talking professional football or whatever.

I am talking about playing sports for fun. ( so that means this topic is about sports outside the media!) like you going outside and playing sports with friends.

they are good for exercise. they are good for focus and developing hand eye coordination. sports are fun once you get good at them. when i was a young kid in middle school I was somewhat fat and was horrible at sports. so I did not like that at all.

once I got older about 10th grade I lost a lot of weight and started to like sports. sports are a form of mediation. don't think much and focus on the game. once you figure them out they are such a blast. sports are a natural high. sports are so fun that I quit smoking weed because sports can entertain me instead.

so my question is why hate on sports. is it because you are bad at them? because of some cocky kid who plays sports? I am curious. is it the win/lose aspect of it?

win/lose is fun. why? winners recieve dopamine. it feels good to be a winner and be good at something. and if you a loser it should motivate you to get better instead of bringing yourself down. practice makes perfect.

there are studies that say that sports and exercise increase a person's intelligence.

 

I'm no good at them, so that's why I hate them. I also can't be bothered to learn the rules of most games. I spent many days pissing my brother and neighbors off with my own versions of games because I won't listen to how it really works.

 

irrationality
make up reasons for their own shortcomings
just being stupid in general

take your pick

you're on a site where many probably enjoy non competitiveness and the whole were all equal BS

 

I hate the marketing in my face, dominating the news ,., doing nothing positive for my neighborhood sports......

people that pay full attention to sports, know every ones stats what they eat and who they fuck.. but cant read a ruler, or electrical measurements, are not very useful on a job site..

 

i love sports

 

I don't know why some people hate non-professional sports, I guess it's just to much pressure for them physically and or mentally.

 

read my first post haha. I am not talking about media. I am talking about normal every day people playing sports. it is a game.

and I forgot to multi-quote you ramona but you should try out bad mitton sometime. rules are simple and it is easy to get good at it fast. plus it is a fun game to play while stoned.

and I used to make up my own games all the time with friends. as a child I was very creative.

 

i think some people don't like the competitiveness...

 

those kind of people need to find a tennis playing partner and just rally the ball back and forth trying to keep it going rather than get the ball out on the other person.

 

Isn't life a sport with all the physical and mental pressure, lol
I like sports, but it's just like eating, do it to enjoy it and don't do it cause someone says it's good for you and you have to.

 

I assume their terrible at them, fat, and nonathletic.

When they see someone else of moderate good shape doing anything resembling exercise and having fun, they feel the need to mock it. That way they're not challenging the little self esteem they hold on to through denial.

 

I used to play badminton in gym in 8th grade. I was really badass at it. I also was pretty good at volleyball, nuke 'em (it's just like volleyball, but instead of having to hit the ball back and forth, you can catch it and throw it. I loved that game), soccer, kickball... I was in P.E., though, because athletics seemed far too stressful to me. I didn't like any of the kids who played sports, all the interesting kids were theatre geeks, lol.

 

I'm a big advocate of adult sports and amateur athletics and being physical in general.

I like team sports and nature-based individual sports. I play on a men's league hockey game (about 50 games a year, plus probably another 50 drop-in/beer league games). I also play on a beer-league softball team in the summers.

I also really enjoy running (I'm running a half-marathon this summer as part of a relay event), rock-climbing, backpacking/hiking, backcountry skiing, mountain biking, and fishing/hunting. I try to do them all, but the intensity of each one varies with time.

I like doing things and think more people should.

 

Professional sports players make millions of dollars to throw a ball around...

I make shit compared to them for ACTUALLY WORKING all year.

They are whiney, rich, ridiculous bastards (the professional sports players...not the average everyday sports players.)

 

many people on this website are incapable of forming their own identities. so therefore, they desperately do whatever they can in order to look like the stereotypical hippy. unfortunately, most of them have no clue what a hippy actually is, so they just emulate the older members of the forum. of course, the older members joined when the internet was young and still populated by un-athletic dorks, so they spent much time bitching about how awful they were at sports, and now the new members see that bitching and just assume that if they want to be hippies, they are required to hate sports.

you don't get a single day off the entire year?

things must have changed a lot recently. i've played a LOT of sports in my life, and i've never been payed a dime for it, let alone millions of dollars. and i also don't consider myself whiney or rich, although maybe ridiculous.

 

I didn't like them in school because athletes got special treatment and they could do nothing in class and still get an A because the teachers would pander to them so that they could still be on the team. But that made me hate the people, not the sport.

I personally think team sports are super boring and I don't like how insane a lot of people get about winning as I couldn't care less about winning a sport, but I always liked cross country and golf and skiing. I'm just more of a solo person I guess.

 

I also coach a grade 6 boys basketball team and a grade 7 boys volleyball team.

 

I absolutely love baseball. I love watching it, playing it, I love the stadiums. I have since I was 3 years old. I played it when I was younger and in school. I've been looking around for adult teams here to play just for fun.

I also enjoy tennis a lot. It's definitely a great workout and it's a lot of fun. You never quit moving. I'm not at all a competitive person. I just enjoy the action of both sports.

Sports, like life, can teach you that if you don't try, you lose. I don't necesssarily think that's a bad message, especially for younger people.

 

people who hate sports

- lazy people
- fat people
- lazy fat people
- politically correct nut jobs
- wimps
- losers

you can learn so many great things from playing sport.

 

You forgot homosexuals, women, and cripples