I’ll go first: Most sports are just glorified kayfabe and how rich/serious the owner is has more of an effect on a team’s success than anything else
I’ll go first: Most sports are just glorified kayfabe and how rich/serious the owner is has more of an effect on a team’s success than anything else
it’s social maladaption to believe sport can only enable hating people. it’s very simple why a school is a convenient base for organizing sports–the kids go there every day like it’s a job, it should just be fully subsidized and not be plugged into a national for-profit sport industrial complex. kids don’t want to beat the shit out of each other because
it’s because it’s put to them that it might be their only avenue to higher education/economic advancement to kick ass in a sport. solve the economics solve the toxic competitive spirit.
my experiences as an athlete in american sports culture are a large part of why i want it burned down but I never said anything about only
it certainly did that (or normalized it, these things are rarely so explicitly top-down) when i went through the system. A bunch of those kids that definitely didn’t have college sports prospects loved the shit beating part too.
US football should actually just be done away with, even in a less competitive culture everything about it for a century has been geared around beating the shit out of people.
but the culture of the severity of the competition in other sports is inflected by the college-prospects even for the non-contendors, simply to keep pace. and don’t forget the coaches who drive this behavior are also justifying their employment/looking for advancement
yup and if you get rid of all that shit you aren’t left with anything recognizable as the last 50+ years of american school sports.