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Message: [QUOTE="billsin01, post: 322623, member: 837"] I define sports as comprising of the following four elements: 1) A very high percentage of entitled, egotistical, players who take their game exceedingly seriously and tend to care about it more than anything else in the world ... until they get paid, at which point they shift their focus to more important matters like cars and pu$$y and blow. They are prone to rallying behind things like a sex abuse scandal but aren't 100% sure if Syria is a continent or a country. 2) A huge number of ego-maniacal coaches who wear under armour to every non-funeral event and spew forth 10s of thousands of words each year that are generally meaningless. They too take their "craft" exceedingly seriously and like to make parallels about how their sport is exactly like war or life in general. They also tend to despise things like media members, social media sites, bothersome laws like DUIs, possession of narcotics, etc., people on message boards, bloggers and annoying professors who suggest their players ought to get some form of education. 3) Fans who take the their team -- which they root for b/c they happened to go to school there or lived there or knew someone who had a friend there or liked the logo -- more seriously than they take their marriages. They get irate over things like media slights, comments from opposing players, message board posts, bad calls, rankings and things that hurt the "integrity of the game." They hate steroids even though they loved Big Mac hitting the ball to New Hampshire in the home run derby and Lavar Arrington body-slamming a yugo after Penn State's big rose bowl victory. They also hate dog-fighting ... unless they are from southwest virginia, in which case they think the media got it all wrong. They consume 5000 calories in parking lots every saturday and scream like banshees when some 20-year-old they've never met tackles another 20-year-old they never met. 4) A gaggle of media members who report important things like "who's the 7th best quarterback of all time" and gleefully declare winners to every team who signs a bunch of free agents only to slam them three months later when those signings don't work out. Generally annoying, reactionary, rarely imparting true information of any sort and most serving rile up fans, this group is very important. [/QUOTE]

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