Or maybe there are many reasons why a person may like a certain activity. Boiling it all down to a single thing as if there are tens of millions of people that are too fat to play sports but want to live vicariously is the height of small-minded thinking.

You don't have to agree with everyone around you on every topic in order to get along. How often do these topics come up in a professional setting anyway? He must be one of those annoying people that wants to talk about sports 24/7. I enjoy sports and it doesn't cause me any trouble in my academic career. I thought everyone understood that it's generally good manners to choose topics of conversation that all involved are interested in. You don't go around talking to anyone and everyone about Everquest, do you? Does this mean there's disdain for Everquest culture?

When the Saints won the superbowl, New Orleans was at peace. I don't see any amount of alcohol, politics, guns, or camaraderie able to accomplish that again.

"hey I'm robbing you after that awesome game"
"Fuck it dude, take it all, let's go get drinks because the Saints won"

Example precluded due to everything being bigger in Texas.

Are you a fat slob who can't shower more than once a week because you require assistance? Many P99ers are, so that must mean you are one too.

Take this for example. Kramer is a calm fan of sports who regardless of whether his favored team wins clearly is enjoying the game. Putty on the other hand is overexcited and popping off over a group of people who he's never met, likely never will meet, and who's victory/defeat won't impact his life in any way shape or form.

Its sports fanatics like that that bother me, who get visibly upset, shout at their TVs, break shit and get into fights because a group of people who happen to live in a region are competing for money against another group.

The only exception I can rationally give to this is people who gamble. If you have money on your team winning you have every right to be upset if your team loses since you are actually losing out when they do.

I didn't miss this, I was just too turned on to reply. The Packers market fake cheese wedges for your head. That's really all I can say.

Both pictures disprove your point, though. There are more thin/average/slightly overweight people in those pictures than enormous ones.

Find a 30 ish intramural football league and I will play. Ass. Football is hard to play past college. Its a unique thing.