What makes you feel that sports are useless? You realize humans have been engaged in recreational and competitive sports for thousands of years? Sports are very much part of society as you and I know it! They offer a means for exercise, mental well-being and socialization.
You honestly think that sitting on your butt all day long with a video game controller in your hand is a better option than going outside with people that breath, have pluses and can actually converse with one another? Go outside, breathe fresh air, find the few friends you've accumulated on XBox Live, throw a football and actually see what it is like to break a sweat! Madden '08 won't teach that.
That's not all; you went for other sports, too! You realize baseball and soccer are two of the most widely played sports in the world? Try going to any European country and telling them football sucks! See if you make it out alive, that's how devoted they are to sports. Visit Olympic Stadium during the UEFA Champions League Final or the Superdome during the Super Bowl and tell them they are all wasting their time. You'll find out quickly you are at a severe disadvantage.
You should also find something better to do than bash something so special to individuals that they devote a vast majority of their waking hours trying to perfect. You would spend your time more wisely by dropping that controller and learning to play a sport!
Bryan Muench
senior, industrial mgmt.
2008 Woodie Awards
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