I don’t think checker players would hit their girlfriends in elevators.  I don’t think people that play checkers would take performance enhancing drugs.  It is difficult to imagine checkers participants refusing to shake hands or getting bent out of shape about celebrations after a key hopping move.

I don’t think our world is a mess because of the sports we are fanatical about.  But I do believe our sports are a reflection of what a mess we are.

I wish we did more things for fun and fewer things to defeat and embarrass other people.