Since Wrestlemania there’s been nothing but stories about John Cena winning an amazing 17th title, blah blah blah… It’s a “History making moment”, yadda yadda yadda…

Like…of course he did. It’s the storyline. It’s quite literally “in the script”.

This isn’t an achievement. Why is this in my sports news next to last night’s hockey scores instead of next to an article about who was the bitchiest on the lastest episode of Real Housewives?

I get it. I loved Wrestling growing up. Back when we all WERE pretending it was real; Macho Man, Hulk Hogan, The Undertaker, etc… But I thought at some point they steered into the whole “entertainment” aspect when most of us grew the hell up and clued into the absurdity of it all.

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    Not all sports are games, if you cant quickly grab some friends and head out to play it, its not a game.

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        What athletic competition would not be a game if all sports are games? I mean, honestly, what is the difference you see between “sport” and “athletic competition”?

        You can extend or contract “game” as much as you want, but I can’t think of a definition of game that would encompass all sports but not all athletic competitions (if there really is a difference).

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          Track and field events are not games.

          Gymnastics or any kind of event involving a choreographed routine. Diving. Really any kind of race.

          I don’t consider all athletic competitions to be sports.

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      That’s not the definition of a game, though.

      Loads of games need co-ordinated access to specific resources, from chess to the 2001 release of Halo. Doesn’t mean they’re not games.

      The line between games and sports is entirely arbitrary, and changes from person to person.

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        22 hours ago

        If your game doesn’t involve traveling above 100mph and pulling more than 2g it’s not a sport 😤