Now your previous statement makes more sense to me. It seems to me that you are not necessarily opposed to sports, but you are opposed to what I refer to as “daddyball.” If that’s the case, I completely agree.
Sorry about the hijack. The OP is right on the money. Waiting in line for the guy who played Chewbacca to give you an autograph is no more nerdier than waiting in line for Fran Tarkenton’s autograph.
How do you instinctively know this? You never had to actually learn it? Damn, why can’t I instinctively know Heather Graham’s phone number?
Good rant.
Herman Munster was played by Fred Gwynne.
Well, that’s a good point. I didn’t mean it quite like that. What I mean is, if someone were to ask me what Gwynn hit in 1987, I’d answer, as if by instinct, .370.
Of course, now I’ve been outed as a sports nerd, so what does it matter? 
My favorite player of all time is Joe Orsulak. I know I’ve met a fellow sports geek when I meet someone who could pick him out of a lineup.
The OP is absolutely right. There is very little difference between a sports fan and a Star Trek conventioneer. I suspect the guys who get the girl can’t be bothered with either.
Now, here’s a sports geek:
Bill James once wrote that if you say “Orsulak” really fast over and over again, it sounds like a locomotive. If you say Quisenberry (as in Dan Quisenberry, the later Royals’ reliever) over and over again, it sounds like windshield wipers.
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Actually, I was just poking fun at you for being a sports geek which is obviously sillier than being a grammar geek. 
uh, well, the race track happened to pass near this, uh, black hole, see…
Obviously.
Must say, I agree with the OP 100%. I’ve seen sports fans get team logos tattooed on various body parts, and shave off all their hair when their team loses … these people are calling me weird, just because I watch Blake’s Seven?
(Nb. - I do not have the Blake’s Seven logo tattooed anywhere. Nor did I shave anything off when the series ended. OK, I might have gone into mourning for a while, but this is perfectly normal behaviour. Wibble.)
Who played baseball for the Dodgers in a classic Munsters episode featuring Leo Durocher.
Nerd, yourself!
Whoooooooshhhhh
The Trouble With Dribbles is that they can run inbetween Bill Buckner’s legs.
Yep, works for me.
Okay, can we all agree to draw the line with The Munsters Nerds? I mean, we have to have some standards, don’t we?
Being the worst of both worlds, I don’t understand society’s obsession with marginalizing minority behaviors and ridiculing them, just for the sake of ridicule. I like football and science fiction, and have been attacked for both. I’m not hurting anyone-yet.
I’ve got Steelers apparel galore and a Klingon prosthetic forehead. I play D&D and write modules for Neverwinter Nights. I have five fantasy football leagues I’m participating in, one of which I am the commissioner.
I’ve also been married twice, I’m not socially inept, and I was a frat boy in college.
You just can’t stereotype some people- you shouldn’t stereotype anyone.
Didn’t Herman knock down the scoreboard with a line drive homer in that episode? Darn darn darn…
Oh, they do. They do. Go to a Star Trek Con and shout out, “Picard could kick Kirk’s ass!” and watch the slap-fighting riot begin.
Those TOS pansies always get their asses kicked, too.
I hate “me too” posts, but this is just too beautiful a rant to let pass without saying “Bravo!”
Oh, Kirk could totally kick Picard’s ass. I mean, it’s like, Picard is this social worker in space who always wants to talk things out, and Kirk, you know, could, like, he’s a space COWBOY, man, and he’d just BIFF POW punch Picard’s lights out, and Picard would be like “ow ow ow stop it hurts” and Troi would be like “I so feel your pain captain” and Kirk would be like “huh you want some more huh do you huh huh” and yeah.
Yes, indeed. Star Trek (and the rest of fandom) often refer to non-fans as ‘mundanes’ and suchlike.
Trust me, fen know their way around exclusionary practices.