We get it. You don’t like sports. Who cares. I think there’s validity to sport and I enjoy watching and playing many of them. Has capitalism ruined everything the common person holds dear in most sports? Yes. I literally wrote an article about it.
But sport itself isn’t inherently bad and being like “herp derp sportsball” makes you sound like a basement dweller incel who wants to shoot up their school because they think jocks get all the girls instead of the kind gentlesirs who study the blade.
A lot of people are only exposed to sport as a tv show and a product, but most sports have roots that go back hundreds of years, are very influenced by working class history and local teams are often at the heart of communities (although many have been stolen and turned into just another generator of capital).
Sports have also been an arena for the class struggle - aristocrats and workers battling it out over who should be allowed to play and control different games at different time, “amateurs vs professionals” (i.e. those who were wealthy enough to be able to fund their sporting career as a hobby vs talented workers who needed to be paid to play) was a controversy in sports for decades. Even today there are many teams run and owned by fans in some sports, and the struggle between workers who have been watching their teams for decades (even through multiple generations of families) vs their indifferent capitalist owners is ongoing.
Also playing sports is fun and you will make friends and get healthy.
Read up on sport in 20th century socialist states, it was treated with massive investment and athletes were awarded high honour, it was tied in to public health (along with often being integrated with making people fit enough to serve in the army to defend against all the capitalist countries wanting to invade you for trying to not be capitalist). Even in capitalist countries today grassroots sport is one of the only real community/social circles people have that isn’t tied to working for a capitalist.
Practicing sports can be good. Official competitions and the worldwide organizations that mantains most of them are shit period and I don’t realy think I’ll change my opinion on this, thanks.
TL;DR: Good- Incentivizing local competitions, incentivizing children to practice sports for health benefits, investing in infraestructure to allow both of these to happen.
Absolutely fucking terrible: Literaly everything else like massive worldwide competitions that siphon money from governments, every single massively corrupt national and international sports organization, the creation of the reactionary working class privileged group who end up completely disconnected from their origins, all of the inevitable tribal conflict as a result of alienation that is relived through sports(read about the fanaticism of criquet in India or all the football violence among rival fans in Brazil/Argentina.
So you can’t talk about football(the real one) without talking about all the teenagers fleeing to capitalist first world countries, barely educated, to follow a 15 year career at best so that they can go back to their home country and be one of the most reactionary parts of the working class and massive public representatives of fascism.
You tell me why third world footballers tend to be such massive chuds despite growing up in the favelas.
And all of the billions spent over decades, money that went from public governments to build “infrastructure” to hold these World Cup/Olympic games/F1 races etc just resulted in massive economic crisis and further increase in economic inequality not to mention government austerity. Much of this tends to happen against the democratic wishes of the majority of the people(e.g Brazil World Cup and new F1 track in Rio) and some of these were the largest transfer of wealth between from the public to the private sector ever only realy unmatched by Qualitative Easing and large scale privatizations
Finaly the Chinese approach is far different. AFAIK China invests in a really broad range of sports and tries to give working class people a viable alternative path. China also isn’t suffering from having to make choices between building a shiny new stadium or a hospital/school, it is not held hostage by IOC/FIFA or whatever. And while I can’t speak to how violent/passionate Chinese fans tend to be at the very least I’ve never heard people in China rioting like it happens in the west.