A bold claim, I know. OK, hear me out. I was watching interviews with the stars of the latest national event: The Super Bowl™ These players are getting asked questions that they one, don't want to answer, don't care to answer or perhaps don't have the tools to answer.
As a society, we place sports at the epicenter of our lives. Even if you don't (I don't), you can't help but be affected by it. The world changes for a game or series of games. People do maddening things. They don't act themselves. They break the law, break property, endanger others and do all sorts of stupid things. Really stupid things.
They do this to watch other humans play a sport. Throw a ball around. Run fast and run into each other. Play games. We then pay them millions and millions of dollars to do this (more on this below).