But playing football or basketball is that easy. I have the same objection about football, so many people love watching it, but relatively few of them play. I never understood why, if you love something, surely it is a lot more rewarding to play it yourself. Local kids in my area play basketball almost every evening, I regularly see them coming from work. How is that different from computer games?
Are we talking about American football or association football/soccer? With American football, you can play it casually, but the rule changes you have to make in order for people not to get clobbered turn it into a very different game from what you see in a pro or college setting. (The level of working out aggression is different too.)
