So here’s the thing: I am not a huge sports fan. In middle school, I took advantage of my mild asthma to get out of gym class. I’ve never consistently watched sports on TV. And I am writing this for the Herald, a publication that canceled its sports section years ago. Yale is not a sports school. We know this. Some of us came to this school because of that. However, there are some real pros to watching sports here.
One, while we may not be a typical sports school, that doesn’t mean that our sports teams aren’t good (at least some of them). Two, and this is the real pro in my opinion, we know the athletes. Yes, it’s true that many athletes isolate themselves from us NARPs. But go to a basketball game and try not to say, “That person is in my residential college! That person was in Structure of Networks with me!” So yeah. Go to sports, because also men’s basketball is really good right now and I think sometimes the visiting teams are shook that Yale students actually care enough to watch. Also it’s good people watching.
