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I’ve never understood why so many people are obsessed with sports. To me, team sports are boring and a waste of time, whether you are playing or watching. Aside from being completely pointless, they give kids poor values and trivialize the importance of real learning and education. The importance that we tend to place on sports damages society as a whole.

First of all, sports are unnecessary in schools. They take focus away from academics and actual education. Team sports encourage children to value only the people with athletic ability and to ostracize the children who are less athletic. This creates a hierarchical caste system in which those who play sports are seen as superior to the “nerds” and the un-athletic, giving intelligent kids, who would otherwise aspire to greatness, low self-esteem. When kids are constantly picked last in gym class or on the playground for teams, they may be scarred for life and feel inferior as adults, whereas the kids who are picked first will develop feelings of superiority and become horrible people as adults. The so-called jocks grow up expecting everything to be handed to them with no real work on their part for the simply fact that they can throw or kick a ball. The kids who could otherwise go on to do great things with their lives may end up questioning their own worth and lose motivation to try even try anything due to fear of rejection and failure, whereas the kids who are good at sports never learn to do any thing with their minds because society tells them that being good at some stupid game is enough to succeed in life. Everyone loses.

The argument that sports encourage teamwork and help kids learn to work together is flawed. This could be accomplished much easier by having children work in groups for assignments and projects in which students have to work together to complete the project that is in some way connected to the curriculum. Students could be required to enter team competitions that are based around academic subjects to learn team-building skills while actually learning something. 

Team sports devalue individuality and promote thinking as part of a collective. When you are part of a team, even your individual accomplishments are regarded as accomplishments of the team as a whole. Team sports destroy the ability for kids to think for themselves as adults.

In high school, I also saw a lot of teachers being much more lenient with the students who were part of a sports team (usually football, but I saw it with other sports such as cross-country and basketball as well). Usually the teachers who are also coaches in a particular sport do this most often, but other teachers do it as well. This only teaches students that, as long as they can throw a ball or run fast, that they don’t have to think or do any real work. 

I also have a problem with professional and college sports. Sports fans get way to into the games. I find it extremely sad that so many fans’ identities are based entirely on their favorite sports teams. When their team loses, they take it so personally and feel as though they, themselves, are failures in some cases. This cannot be psychologically healthy. I also find it disturbing that so many people cause violent riots after a game doesn’t go the way they want and that people hate other people for the simple fact that they like a different team. If racism and sexism weren’t already bad enough, now we have to discriminate based on sports team fandom. It’s kind of ridiculous when you think about it. 

It’s also really annoying when you want to watch a television show, only to find that it’s being preempted by extra innings of a baseball game. I find watching sports to be a pointless activity. Even though I don’t like team sports, I’d much rather play than just sit there watching someone else play. It’s the same way I feel about watching other people play video games and pornography. 

I can see watching sports that you, yourself, actively participate in to study techniques, but I know that 90% of the people who watch games on television or go to live sporting events couldn’t play their favorite sport if their lives depended on it (considering the sport’s fan’s diet of beer, hot dogs, and chicken wings). Perhaps watching sports is simply a social thing and an excuse to drink for most people. But there are plenty of other ways to socialize.

I do enjoy some individual sports, such as fencing and snowboarding, but I have no interest in watching other people compete in these sports. What enjoyment can you possibly get out of watching someone else play a game? Especially when you consider that these people are getting paid millions just to play a game that you probably played for fun on the playground as a child, whereas you have to work 40 hours a week doing actual work and can still barely afford to pay your bills. 

Don’t you think that people with jobs that are of actual importance, such as teachers or police officers, should be making more money than someone who just throws a ball? What kind of message is it sending to children when they see that society values a football player more than people who actually make a difference? What do kids think when they see these athletes that they idolize getting busted for using steroids or committing various crimes and then getting away with it?

Playing sports could be a fun activity to do to get exercise (though there are plenty of other things you can do to for exercise, such as yoga or jogging), but they have no place in schools or on television. Our society takes sports way too far and team sports do much more harm than good in the long run. 

This article was originally published at: Do Team Sports Hurt Society

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