Video Sports(SSR)

Why is our generation so corrupted?!? Honestly, who is the “genius” who came up with video games is a sport. Did someone just come up and say “Oh, video games are fun. Let’s make it a sport, then people will let us play them more!” News flash! Sports require PHYSICAL activity. Video games you do practically nothing. It takes real talent to move your thumbs.

Video games shouldn't be a sport because you basically sit on a couch with a controller moving your thumbs staring at the TV all day. Staring at a TV all day is bad for your eyes and sitting on a couch makes you gain weight. The only exercise you get in getting up to get something and moving your thumbs. Let’s be honest your getting very little exercise moving your thumbs all day. There is no physical activity happening, so video games couldn't be a sport. A sport is a competition using most of your mental and physical qualities to meet a goal. Some Wii games they can be Simi active, but in all reality you could just move your arms and do just fine on meeting the goal. Modern Warfare, Call of Duty, and other games like those you sit down on a seat and move your thumbs on a controller. Sure you can say it requires strategy, aim, and hand eye coronation, but so does archery and you are still getting more exercise out of archery than video games. Video games could kind of be considered an “e-sport” because your digital character is working out in the game, but not the person playing the game. People play video games for fun and to have something entertaining to do. If video games were a sport you would see players actually running like basketball players, volleyball players, and baseball players. They wouldn't be waving around a controller or sit down in front of a TV to play a game. Society has enough problems we don’t need to add another like laziness.

I sometimes do play video games like Tetris, Modern Warfare, or Other games, but I don’t call that a sport. I do some kind of sport like practice volleyball or jog, so I have physical exercise that day. I do not plan to become a professional gamer anytime soon. I rather be a writer. 

Notice how's he running...

Notice how's he is siting by the TV with a controller...