Sports, the new opiate of the people

[yoyossarian]

28. Dude, if you're that aware of your environment...

...then surely you musta noticed the many MANY moronic numbskull sports-heads surrounding you in any given stadium on any given Sunday, who know little or NOTHING else...
I've known quite a few gear-heads who were pretty smart... then again, being a gear-head means being engaged with something--in this case auto mechanics--which is so much different than simply being a passive fan of sports.
And yes, I've known a lot of intelligent people who are into sports--though rarely to the sort of excess exhibited by most hardcore fans, who watch literally HUNDREDS and HUNDREDS of games EVERY YEAR, often obsessively...
MOST of the fans, it seems to me from my rather distant perch nowadays, thankfully, are probably of the same sort of intelligence as your average NASCAR fans... and if that's your sort of peeps, great; but they're NOT known for their political acumen; they have so little room in their little memories, apparently, for facts about the world around them, having stuffed themselves full of sports statistics and buffalo wings, that they usually can't name the VP--or even if they can, they sure can't SPELL the name. Hell, most of 'em can't spell VP!
If you're a truly intelligent and engaged sports enthusiast, you are in an elite minority, m'friend... at least in my experience.
My hat's off to you!