Cultivated Disinterest in Professional Sports

[Kimm Bare|y]

When you show overt contempt for sports you are showing contempt for most everybody and that is problem with your social skills.
It's called being a snob. The disdain for working class culture among academics was part of the reason I choose not to pursue a formal higher education. I suspect this overt snootiness keeps many gifted working class kids from participating in higher education.

I grew up working class and was a boxer. I love Ice Hockey, Football, UFC, NASCAR, Motocross, and heavy metal, but I am also an academic and an intellectual. Many highly educated people have told me so, I just don't have the paper to prove it.
My oldest son is highly gifted earning math test scores putting him in the top tenth of one percent and placing 1st in regional Math Masters competitions. He also plays ice hockey so he interacts socially with the 'jocks' and the 'brains' preferring the company of the 'brains.'

Most of his 'smart' friends show contempt for sports which is a social problem since he is an athlete.

When a kids says, "Hockey. Meh. It is a bunch grown men with sticks chasing a black piece of rubber around a sheet of ice" he is saying in effect "What you love is obtuse and low brow and I don't care how that makes you feel." And that is just rude.

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=8972179

[Gucci Mane]

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[towbes]

I liked the way xkcd put it:

http://xkcd.com/1480/

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[Champion_Standing]

I think OP is trying to tell us that we should be playing WoW.

[Whirled]

try red ... o wait... uh... Yaay freedom!

[Swish]

What about those e-sports tho?

[Lemiddar]

I ignore the anti-sports people, generally. There are plenty of things I dislike, and I don't click into threads to knock people who enjoy them.

[theaetatus]

What a load of rubbish. Professional sports are just as middle-class as they are working-class. They are for idiots of all classes. [You must be logged in to view images. Log in or Register.]

[Formshifter]

Watching sports is for people who are too fat to play sports, but want to live vicariously. Affiliate themselves with a team so that they can experience accomplishment in their otherwise pointless existence. Go play football if you like football.

[theaetatus]

That Mitchell and Webb Look - Football: http://youtu.be/xN1WN0YMWZU