Pilots and Following Sports - Do You?

ContestID67 wrote:
I don't follow sports and never have short of knowing if the home team
is doing well. Call me a fair weather fan. Many of my friends can
spout which team (pro, college, HS) did what to whom and know all the
players, their stats, etc. I try to put up a good manly face and say
the right things at the right time but basically I could really care
less. I realize that I am in the minority.

Oddly I found that most of my pilot friends are in the same boat. I
took an informal poll at our club and at least 90% of those asked
didn't follow sports. Seems very odd. I wonder what the connection
is? Intelligence? ;-)

Next time you are out at the field, take your own informal pole and
report back. We may have the makings here of a article in Psychology
Today!

I'm definitely a fair weather fan, although I will go to pro football
games (the American kind) if my in-laws give up their season tickets for
a game.

I've subscribed to cable to watch the Tour, and canceled service
afterward, and driven hundreds of miles to watch three World Cycling
Championships that have been held in Colorado.
Baseball, what's that, doesn't it go on during the best part of the
soaring season :-)


Shawn


P.S. Stephen Jay Gould was huge big baseball fan, so the interest does
not correlate well with low intelligence.