I'm not disagreeing that talking about politics at work is a minefield, at best.

However, trying to get everyone to talk about sports is annoying as hell. I'd rather have ugly political arguments than talk about some stupid sports game; that's my point. You're trying to paint sports as some kind of thing to unite over, but I'm pointing out that it isn't, all it does is create another division, between the sports fans and everyone else.

Now, of course, I don't care if a few sports fans have a conversation among themselves at work. However, with some of them it seems to be a religion of sorts and they have to push it on everyone.