Sports are.....awesome. It's an outlet for people to let go of their emotions and its acceptable. There are a bunch of different sports out there. Contact sports, non-contact sports, gentle non-contact sports, violent non-contact sports, cardiovascular sports, muscular sports, mental sports, non-athletic sports, athletic sports, games, and numerous other activities that fall under the umbrella of "sports". Contact sports usually run on emotions, people try to get angry because it helps them play better, coaches of these sports draw on their players' emotions to get them to play better. And it usually works. And the kids who play like to hit people and have a fanatical obsession with getting hurt.
But sports are more than people using their emotions to play better and all that. Sports are about passion. You're passionate about what you, and that drives you to perform. If you're a professional athlete, loyalty drives you, to some extent. Loyalty to your fans, and what your fans expect you to do. Fans are a huge part of professional sports. The fans pay for the tickets, that money goes to the organization, and pays the athletes. Without the fans there is no sport. The fans make the sport. Professional athletes realize this, and they elevate their games to please the fans and make sure they keep coming.
Sports are huge in America. They help us regular people to relive our childhood dreams of being professional sports stars. We see them perform unhuman feats and imagine that it is us out there doing it. They provide us with an outlet for our dreams. Sports are amazing things, whether you play them or not.
This post is dedicated to Tyler "Lefty" Calhoun, whose choice of the word "Sports" inspired this blog post.
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