Sport for some is meditative exercise. The player who focuses on the ball and its goal with absolute concentration is voluntarily coordinating human conscioussness with his animal brain-body coordination. This is indeed a form of meditation and integration of mind-body. And this is beneficial and transforming when it becomes a practice for self improvement. However, spectator sports do absolutely nothing for the spectators other than distract them from self improvement. It is the capitalization of sport which is dysfunctional. It is the mob violence aspect of sport that comes from this capitalization, whipped up by those who profit from it, similarly to the way that others whip up aggression to profit from war. Sport is generally a rough form of ativistic community building. It is quite frankly a crude method, which tends to attract those who are prone to violence and narcissistic demonstrations of superiority and dominance. Incorporating physical exercise into a daily practice is important. However, the practice of individual human evolution requires solitude, meditation and inactivity as well as social exertion and activity.
