Why in the world are sports so popular? It's just a game! People live their lives playing a game! In reality, would sports really impact the world? Sure people enjoy playing them, and they bring enjoyment to people everywhere, but what lasting impacts do they really have?
Sports are complex. There are team sports and individual sports; balls, pucks, bats, helmets, you name it and it's in a sport. The main purpose of a sport is to entertain the audience, which I feel is happening very successfully. While the audience is being entertained, the players also have a lot of fun and can learn valuable life lessons while playing them. For example in football, a lesson learned can be to get up whenever you get knocked down; be able to bounce back when adversity strikes. This relates to life because some time or another either adversity will hit you, or someone knocks you down. Football, although is only a game, can help young men this skill. In a game people get knocked down, whether they are being tackled, or blocking someone, people fall down. If you get blocked onto the ground it's a little upsetting, but most people will be able to get up from a little blow. How will a person react when they are on the ground the whole night? When the person across from you is just bigger and stronger than you are? It's demoralizing to a person when you are able to push them back ten yards or pancake them onto the ground, but it's what the person on the ground has to do in order to get back up that builds character.
In volleyball, teams have to be learn how to battle back after losing sets. In volleyball teams must rally. This means they have to get a lot of points in a row and keep focused. They have to keep their heads up and get playing. This happens in life too. Sometimes you can feel like you're so far behind or can never succeed no matter how hard you try, but this just proves that you can. In volleyball momentum swings and teams can score up to 15 points in a row. In life instead of scoring points, something will go your way and success will happen.
In baseball, have you ever wondered how pitchers can go back to pitching like normal after giving up a home run? They have to learn how to flush something bad and play like it never happened. If they didn't the game would snowball. The batters after would get hits, more runs would score, and the whole complexity of the game would change. This relates to life because sometimes mistakes happen, and people need to learn how to bounce back from them and not dwell on it. People need to flush things sometimes, whether that means to forgive someone, or just move on from the mistake, it will make decisions in the future go better.
Whether sports are for entertainment or to teach people valuable lessons, we will never truly know. The fact is they do both which is something special. So why do them? They are fun while teaching you valuable lessons along the way.
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