Combat is a Sport

Because people usually don't come back with half their head blown off when they go to a ball game.

I say "usually" because, y'know, Chicago...

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>>34841311
Sport has always consumed lives for millennia. Football players sacrifice their right to a peaceful death at an old age just by playing. Death in sport has always been a thing of glory, a way to be close to God.

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Sport: an athletic activity requiring skill or physical prowess and often of a competitive nature

Wonder if this disqualifies golf

>>34841324
On the contrary war it self is boring, it's battles that people would be interested in, and only for a brief period of novelty and then they'll start wanting smaller scale squad or platoon level brawls, or just simple one on one fights.

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>>34841361
What the audience wants doesn't necessarily define what the sport will give them. The thing about sport is that the audience is often a part of the sport, regardless of their choosing. Whether it be the damage a booing crowd does to an opposing team, or the spilt blood of a spectator who became part of the action.

>>34841324
Brrrrrraaaaaaaappppppff
This is probably someone's fetish.

>>34841340
I'm not going to pretend I find golf impressive as a sport, but if you actually think it requires no skill you should educate yourself a little.

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>>34842426
It requires the skill of smoozing with management or executives of a company while all of you pretend you are engaging in a sport. Golf's sole purpose is to let boomers and fat Gen Xers think they are active.