There are other reasons for giving up on football. Even alt-right leader Richard Spencer recently voiced an interesting argument against the sport, suggesting that fans are “covering up some hole in ourselves” by fervently rooting for a team. Spencer would presumably prefer for tribalism to be based on skin color, rather than on some arbitrary factor such as which professional city drafted a given player some particular year. Sports teams are perhaps the last politically correct form of tribalism left for your standard white dude to partake in, and perhaps Spencer sees this as competition. Or maybe he just doesn’t like all those black players?

Regardless, his first point has some merit: Why am I burning so many calories worrying about football games when I should be focused on my friends and family and work? To be sure, people need a diversion. And it’s true that football provides an opportunity to network and talk to other people about a shared interest. But how many hours of my life—how many Sunday afternoons—have been frittered away in front of a TV, watching overgrown millionaires play a child’s game?