[rational-future]

Professional sports are for the dumb - a modern version of the Roman circus to keep the unwashed masses occupied and away from the important things in life - politics, finance, economics.

[JoshMilo]

You must have forgotten that Niels Bohr was an olympic athlete as well as a nobel prize winner in physics.

[psykotic]

You're confusing the physicist Niels with his mathematician brother Harald. Niels did play soccer but never on the national team.

[rational-future]

Yeah, never mind the 99.99% of Nobel winners that aren't/weren't athletes.

[remarkEon]

The point was that being a tremendous athlete and an intellectual/scientist aren't mutually exclusive.

Edit: Also, astronauts.

So there's that.

[aaron-lebo]

You say that as though modern politics isn't a bunch of people mindlessly rooting for their favorite team.

[rational-future]

No, it's not. What you describe is the political theater - another form of circus. All decisions are made behind closed doors by very smart people.

[aaron-lebo]

The owners and general managers who run sports franchises aren't just as adept?

What is the difference?

[remarkEon]

You've clearly never been to Yankee Stadium.