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basketball... the NBA playoffs are coming!! Which team do you suppourt?? I suppourt the New Jersey Nets and the Cavs w/ James!!
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To answer your question - absolutely so. I know for a fact that Mr Card knows whether or not he is a sports'-fan.
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In answer to what johnsonweed was actually asking (regardless of the literal meaning of the words used), Card has directly said several times that he is not a sports fan. It's possible that I'm misremembering, but I don't think so.
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Why watch any of that when theres the Battle Room ("After years of watching children flying, Football is like watching slugs bash into each other" from Ender's Game, by Graff)
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I think he has a particular problem with the preference for sports over, say, drama or choir as a character builder for youth. I'm not sure what his views on Marching Band might be. I think where people are working together to make something interesting/beautiful, he would be supportive of that as opposed to the competition and veiled warfare of most athletic activities. I mean, I'm working here from an assumption that he shares the attitudes of most of his protagonists, that if you must go to war you must. But engaging in symbolic warfare for fun- perhaps not so much.
I would further venture that it gets into the argument between nature and nurture, where the naturists would say that teenage males will be violent if not given this outlet. While a nurturist might say the whole point of civilization is to overcome our animal drives.
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I seem to remember him suffering some of the side effects of growing up as a not particularly athletic child. As a result, I don't think he's big on sports, or athletes, in general.
And, as he said, we do pay them an awful lot of money for their abilities to perform fundamentally useless acts.
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