If There Were No Sports,The World Would Fall Apart?

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MR.KAZ

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I forgot to post this topic earlier.It's an odd one,but interesting.It popped into my head after watching Michael Jordan,David Robinson,Jerry Sloan,and John Stockton being inducted.

A friend of mine told me one time that without sports,the world would fall apart.What the hell does that mean?

God Bless,
Kaz
 
he assumes that plate tectonics are a cause of people throwing/hitting/shooting/touching balls on a field/court/diamond etc.
 
MR.KAZ said:
I forgot to post this topic earlier.It's an odd one,but interesting.It popped into my head after watching Michael Jordan,David Robinson,Jerry Sloan,and John Stockton being inducted.

A friend of mine told me one time that without sports,the world would fall apart.What the hell does that mean?

God Bless,
Kaz
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Being Canadian,I think I can speak for the rest of Canada when I say that if you took Curling and Hockey away from us,the entire Country would just snap. :lol
 
I would fall apart without sports. I LOVE playing and watching sports. I play pick-up games of football and ultimate frisbee all the time, and wallyball and raquetball in the winter, plus the occasional round of golf. And I actually just got back from playing sand volleyball. I watch college basketball and football, along with Pro Football. It is just so entertaining to watch and play. Sportscenter is almost always on in my room.
 
Phoenix said:
oh theyve told me m8.

just checkin for myself. :)
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Don't worry Chief.I don't bite. :lol
BV does though.
He acts like he runs the place!
 
Yes. here's why. Sports is the second oldest form of recreation (procreation being the first). The oldest form of recreation can be elusive at times, or turn into a reason to need recreation (see marriage, divorce, any struggle between man and woman) so really sports is the only true form of recreation left. Sure there's other stuff but we'd all be fat and lazy and (for the most part anyway) not be able to take care of the world. If there was no recreation we'd all be pissy all the time and end up killing each other off. We play violent sports (and video games for that matter) to blow off some steam, get it out of our system, satisfy those basic instincts so we can go back to every day life and deny said instincts to basically coexist. Take sports away, you're relying solely on the oldest form of recreation which is good but lets be honest, can start wars all its own, you've got no vent and no exercise.

I'll even go one step further and call video games a sport (to a lesser degree anyway). It's competetion, it gets adrenalyn flowing, and with the right game can be exercise. Anyone that wants to argue that has never seen an asian kid play ddr!

bottom line, no recreation, world kills itself off.
 
In many cultures, games were often used to settle disputes, and used as a means to avoid war.

So in that mindset, I believe the world would fall apart as we know it because diplomacy only goes so far.
 
The world of sports would fall apart. But it is one part of many societies that have other parts.

I'll say that sports are part of a superstructure. They act as ritual behavior in a way. Usually, as long as infrastructure (economy, subsistence) and day to day life/work remain, superstructural aspects also remain. If one fails, it is theorhetically usually because there are flaws in the underlying infrastructure.
 
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