Sport is all about competition. All around the world and through the ages people competed against each other to improve their skills and thus their survival. It may have been hunting skills but predominantly it was to improve their fighting abilities. Creating games, elevated tiresome practices into entertainment. Over time the inclination towards mortal combat has been downgraded to hurting your opponent or beating your opponent either physically or mentally.
Sport is competition. Without competition, sport becomes just physical or mental recreation. Running, jumping, swimming, surfing, sailing, skating, skiing, rowing, kicking, catching and playing are just individual pastimes without competition. So why do why feel a need to compete and more importantly why do we feel the need to band together and compete ? We can improve ourselves without competing against other people. Is it our gregarious nature or tribal nature ?
Let’s look at the creation of the first community sporting clubs. Back in the 1850s the inhabitants of Australia were very wealthy due to the abundance of wheat, sheep and gold. As such, they were the first European people to have the luxury of not having to work Saturday afternoons. They chose to form the first community football clubs. These were not restricted to gentlemen like cricket clubs or to private schools like other football codes. This new colonial football quickly became very popular to play and to spectate to become ingrained in the Australian way of life. One clear observation of this phenonium is it’s tribal nature. The need to identify, the need to win - the need to say (even vicariously) “I’m better than them” Team sports are definitely about social identification whether playing or spectating and this roots in our need to band together for survival.
Individual sports by definition are at odds with team sports. It seems a comment on modern society that the emphasis has shifted from the group to the individual. We no longer worry about group defense (or give up in despair at the enormity) so we concentrate on surviving amongst the crowd. So we gravitate to those individuals who can give us example of winning and we try an emulate those feats as a way of succeeding. We hope that winning at sports will carry over into our daily lives. Do people play golf to recreate or for sport ? We may say we do it for the fun and exercise, to recreate, but everybody is a sports person at heart wanting to win - it’s just a question of degree. That’s the difference - how much we want to win and want the recognition of winning.
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People think they play sports for some smart reason. Whatever logical reason people give to explain why they play sports, it’s bullshit.
The only reason why people practice (and watch) sports is because it fills the gap in our primitive brain to be agressive and competitive.
In the past, when humans lived in caves, we needed to go hunting and fighting for either territory or survival. So, people with an agressive DNA, who enjoyed hunting and fighting, had greater chances to survive. Those who didn’t enjoy physical exercise and fight would be killed without passing their DNA ahead.
Then, we discovered cattle raising and agriculture. Now, most of us didn’t have to hunt, and the fight were reserved to the army. But our DNA was untouched, we still had this need to hunt and fight.
That’s why we invented sports. They are like a ritual in which we can fight each other without the need to kill anyone.
Football (soccer) is the most popular sport in the world because it’s the perfect allegory for hunting. It’s like two tribes (teams) fighting each other for the possession of the prey (ball) until they can kill it (score the goal) and have the feast (celebration). In the video bellow you can watch the brilliant explanation of the British anthropologist Desmond Morris about the popularity of football:
Because sport is good for our health....
