Anyone who knows me knows I am in general antipathetic toward sports. I don’t watch it, I don’t follow it, and I could not care less who is winning or losing. The sun does not rise and set on finals, March Madness, seasons, MVPs, or any of that. I missed being infected with this particular virus as a child and have never regretted it, as I find the whole thing baffling.
Mind you, I don’t have anything at all against playing sports. I think more kids should (if they’re allowed in by the jocks, that is). But watching?
Regardless my feelings about sports as such, my biggest complaint is with the fetishizing of it and the profound cost of such obsession on just about everything. …