Sports vs. Politics

In my opinion, sports are 20X more popular than politics of today. There are many reasons for this, but I think the major factor behind this is the fact that sports can be seen and participated in on a daily basis. A lot of the politics of today don't really have any affect on our day to day lives. They certainly can at some point, but I agree with a few of my classmates when they said that society lives and breathes sports. A lot of us grew up loving sports and participated in them all throughout our childhood and adolescent years. Most kids' dreams were to be a famous NBA player or a famous NFL star. More than likely, most kids growing up didn't strive to be a politician. Hell, most of us didn't know what politicians were until our high school years. It just doesn't seem politics are in people's viewpoints until they go to school and learn all about it. The difference in popularity is also seen in the amount of exposure the two have. Sports can be seen on television almost every single night all throughout the year. Politics only gets it's time in the limelight every so often. It's just one of those things that's always there, but not a lot of people pay attention to it. It isn't made any clearer than in that clip that Nik showed us in class. Everyone thought they knew what they were talking about, but most of them knew absolutely nothing. They thought they were caught up on all their party's issues and stances on things, but they made themselves sound like fools trying to explain them. If you were to ask that guy with the Ohio State apparel on about Ohio State athletics, he could probably tell you quite a bit.