Why is the military of any kind associated with sports?

[Exultant Democracy]

6. Well it all started thousands years ago

When they were training young men for war and figured they needed a way to get them ready fo war without killing them.

The fact that was use sports as a war replacement these days is progress. Even the fans have mellowed out, it’s rare thing these days indeed to see a post game riot topple a sitting government.

It’s actually almost amazing that we have reduced our over the top military role in sports to mostly football here. In China they can’t even play pong pong without the PLA getting in on the act.