You can keep trying to validate eSports because THE MERRIAM-WEBSTER DICTIONARY SAID SO but Sports will always be referred to as physical enduring activities by nearly anyone you talk to.
>implying golf doesn't require extensive physical discipline to play correctly at a competitive level
Golf was perhaps a poor analogy, but I see where he's coming from. I'd say other, more vague classifications such as Chess or Poker being called sports would be a more accurate comparisons. There's no physical form practiced in either (perhaps trying to keep a bullshit face in poker, but that is not very physically oriented).
Gosh, then I guess grabbing that box on the top shelf is the best sport, or picking up that sock on the floor! BEST SPORT EVER
Quit being a stubborn idiot.
I guarantee you if you can get enough people to participate and watch people taking things off the top shelf and find some sponsors, it'll be on your ESPN lineup after they come up with regulations for the box's size, weight, material, position and the shelf's position, material, height from the ground. You put that shit on ESPN, I'm sure any company that has any sort of boxed goods will be jumping on that nonsense in minute to make sure it's
their logo on the box.
Soon enough you'll hear about all the disqualified athlete stars who were taking performance enhancers so they could reach the box a tenth of a second faster or the crazy man who cuts off his own testicles so he weighs less and has less wind resistance when sprinting to the shelf.
If people can gather interest and it makes money, they'll make whatever they want into a "sport" and shamelessly plug it.
eSports is gaining popularity and breaking new ground. As a matter of fact, if I'm not mistaken, professional League of Legends players can actually come to the US on sports visas now. As much as I hate that game and MOBAs in general, they are serving as the first popular gateway for other eSports genres to eventually flourish.
I'm not saying that eSports should be on the same networks as sports or be called "sports". eSports suits them fine. There is competition of the realm we live in, the real world, and then there are competitions of virtually constructed environments being played to their fullest. If you need a television or monitor to compete, it is properly classified as an eSport.