How do people find interest in sports, and playing sports? There is no point to them. How could a human create, and get so many people to enjoy, a game? How does the human find throwing a pig around, or bouncing a ball, a way of life in some cases. How can they spend most of their life memorizing stupid facts about pointless games. Is it just a delusion, to keep them busy? I was wondering if anyone had the explanation behind sports and the human.
everything, especially religion , science and even philosophy (well all philosophy except for that of the purple wombat and werklempter) itself is just a delusion to keep you busy. life is absurd.
“have a coke and a smile.”
-Imp
one must imagine sisyphus happy 
Mind,
Aside from the existential void that it fills, sports is actually quite a worthwhile venture intellectually.
Think about it, you sit here at a computer typing out some stuff but how much of your mind (and thus body) are you really letting yourself open up to? Sports unlockes a door to lead you into a better grasp of self. Of your body’s limits, strengths, and subtlties.
More primative physical exertions such as, like you said, ‘sport sports’ are slightly different from things like yoga but they are all meditations in a a sense and all have their benefits which clear the mind and aid in being an ‘intellectual’. To think otherwise is to miss out on a great deal of knowledge - but that will happen regardless. No one can do everything…
Now… the societies which surround these things are a different story. I myself love basketball and just from watching/playing in fantasy leagues I know a fair amount of stats but I know that because I find it fun. Unless it’s for a career… I don’t really understand why people would memorize stats from like every sport.
But, like Willam said… we all push the rock our own ways.
Watching sports. - It is hardly different from any form of pure entertainment: one watches for excitement, drama, and the unexpected. Sports then go a step further and introduce the aspect of raw competition, the best put head-to-head against the best, manifesting a temporary embodiment of such concepts as intensity, energy, the will to survive, the will to overpower; seek and destroy, strategy, et al. Granted, these are in some sense metaphors, yet in a very literal sense sport is war with the volume turned down; chess on grass, where the world’s greatest atheletes are the pieces.
I could never blame anyone for not liking sports, just as I could never blame anyone for not liking Shakespeare; yet I doubt there is a human being alive who cannot understand what makes competition enjoyable; moreover elite-level strategic competition between the best of the best of a given skill-set. That’s pretty much what watching sports is all about; I suppose you either ‘get it’ or you don’t, with all respect.
Playing sports. - Similarly, the issue is rooted in concepts such as challenge, competition, testing one’s physical limits, out-thinking your opponent, strategy, being part of a team, experiencing the thrill of victory; add to these fun and exercise. Pointless? Nah.
As for the stat-memorization thing, I have a pretty modest wealth of useless sports knowledge. But knowledge of movies (what won the Best Picture Oscar in 1986?) or books (who is the lead character in Pride and Prejudice?) or politics (who was the 23rd President of the United States?) is of no inherently greater value. Some things we’re interested in we just kinda remember, ya know? If you mean those guys who know just about every stat from every sport and every year - well, those are just nerds, if I may use the term without philosophical justification.