Reply #15: Yeah, right [View All]

[democracyindanger]

"A sport requires the athletic prowess, skill, and teamwork to achieve victory. Manuevering a machine around a track does not qualify."

F1 drivers and MotoGP riders train like professional athletes because they are. I don't think much of NASCAR because one long left hand turn doesn't rate exciting in my book, but to pooh-pooh all motorsport as not qualifying is ridiculous on its face. Not to mention what you identify as the parameters means every individual track and field event isn't a sport because there's no "teamwork." That includes you, triathletes--your little hobby doesn't involve teamwork, so it doesn't count as a real sport.

"Highest attended" doesn't mean "exciting," as much as you'd like it to. And offering up gamed numbers to "prove" it only shows how weak the proposition is.

And there are other times NFL stadiums are packed: During NFL games.

I will give soccer credit for one thing, though--any given game will have more melodramatic acting than the sappiest episode of General Hospital.