When You Watch Sports, Your Brain Thinks You’re Playing

Re:When You Watch Sports, Your Brain Thinks You’re Playing by philwelch on Sunday July 15, 2018 @10:07PM (#17538276)

> Besides, 11 people representing a country is just a ploy to entertain people. There is zero level of relationship between the players and the rest country.

Aside from the legal requirement that they be citizens of the country they play for, and that once a player represents his country in a competitive match, they are bound to represent that same country for the rest of their lives, barring some extraordinary situation where the country itself breaks up or ceases to exist.

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Re:When You Watch Sports, Your Brain Thinks You’re Playing by sametmax on Monday July 16, 2018 @02:09AM (#17539107)

Artificial requirements to make the illusion of a connection stronger.

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Re:When You Watch Sports, Your Brain Thinks You’re Playing by kami8845 on Monday July 16, 2018 @08:33AM (#17540769)

I think your assertion that people who were born and grew up in the same country bear 0 resemblance goes against a lot of modern statistics.

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Re:When You Watch Sports, Your Brain Thinks You’re Playing by sametmax on Monday July 16, 2018 @08:50AM (#17540875)

They do but not more or less than footballers, bakers or your neighboor. There is nothing special about football except the idea that it's special.

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Re:When You Watch Sports, Your Brain Thinks You’re Playing by philwelch on Monday July 16, 2018 @10:16AM (#17541390)

I really don’t see what makes the concept of national football teams any more artificial than the concept of nations in the first place.

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Re:When You Watch Sports, Your Brain Thinks You’re Playing by moretai on Monday July 16, 2018 @11:20AM (#17541969)

I don't think anyone would disagree with you there.

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