[fbdab103]

How many jobs necessarily have a focused mission where you can easily make that an implicit requirement? Even if you take a position at ESPN, you might work on nothing externally facing. Does an accountant/lawyer/janitor also need to be a sports geek to apply?

It is great if you could get a position in which you are passionate, but those are few and far between.

[hinkley]

I don't know where I stand on this exact issue but one should be careful that the questions they are asking don't slot the acceptable candidates into a gender, economic class, race, age group, or religious affiliation.

If you changed the nouns and adjectives for this example to something else you could find your way into trouble.