They find it boring.
The best can do both.
In some guys I think being intellectual (or pseudo intellectal) is largely born and/or developed as a defense mechanism for not being good at sports, not thinking they can be, or just not trying.
You'll notice many will make excuses or talk down on sports as a way to make themselves feel better. A healthy individual, especially if they are smart, should understand the concept of and why physical education is important, beneficial, etc.
I don't think that is accurate. There are many intellectual man that enjoy sports; both playing sports or as a fan of spectator sports. However many have other interests as well and therefore may not place sports as high on their priority list as others.
It s all about where one invests their time. If you invest time into sports, family, romance, art, grooming, pets, friends, home improvement, etc. you might not have the time to solve puzzles, play challenging mental games, research things you are curious about, read heavy thought-provoking books, and so on. The same is true the other way around. There are simply too many things to do in life and it takes a lot of energy and focus to be able to keep a strong interest in such wide fields of knowledge.
Because life is short and the world holds an infinite number of things to learn and take an interest in, people prioritize. It s as simple as that.
because we concern ourselves with other matters, other than which insanely overpaid sports star hoists which piece of cheap tin trophy. Honestly.........who really CARES???
I don't know just how brain dead a person has to be, to go stand around, and watch other people GOLF.....and then applaud like trained seals, when they make a good shot.
Do these people have absolutely NOTHING better to do with their time?
Why would I waste one SECOND of my life, watching cars or motorcycles go round and round and round some track, and pretending I care which of the idiots wins?
Tennis........you sit for hours, and watch a ball going back and forth, back and forth.
Soccer....you sit for 90 minutes, and watch grown men, kick a ball around , and not score a single goal, and then say the score of 0-0, was a good game.
I must have been born without the bone in my head that comprehends why anyone would waste their time *watching* such things.
I could see PARTICIPATING, if you enjoy those things..........but why on EARTH would you just sit around watching other people playing having fun. ?
and the dolts that paint their faces in team colors....... I can't imagine what possesses people to give two craps.
There are many who are actually it's just that intellectual men are stereo typed as being scrawny poin dexters and Stephen hawkings and not athletic and hard core. There have even been some uninted states navy seals who were Harvard and Princeton grads.
Generalize much?
Nate Silver is pretty brilliant, having developed statistical models that correctly predicted many recent US elections. He also is a huge sports stat geek who developed the PECOTA algorithm for Baseball Prospectus, and routinely writes on sports as well as politics, both well.
He's also gay, just in case you want to blow up another stereotype.
We're told all the time that Obama is an intellectual, but he's into sports.
"The man was such an intellectual he was of almost no use.”
― Georg Christoph Lichtenberg
Your premise is incorrect. Men who have intellectual capacity should be distinguished from those who have intellectual capacity and prefer to exercise that to other pasttimes.
Like Obama?
They like me joined the National Speleological Society ages ago.
You are not supposed to see them or appreciate their success.
