Hey, sports teach valuable life skills -- life skills the socially awkward often miss out on. Things like grit, teamwork, and not being a sore loser, as well as the importance of keeping your body in shape. In fact we are having a crisis of not enough boys doing sports, and as a consequence elite military units can't find enough recruits who meet the baseline physical fitness standards.
A reasonably intelligent person with an athletic background probably did well socially in HS, and will probably do well in the working world.
A reasonably intelligent person with an athletic background probably did well socially in HS, and will probably do well in the working world.