Better poll - Are Professional Athletes Entertainers?

Are Professional Athletes entertainers?

  • Yes, they are paid professional entertainers

  • No, they are not paid professional entertainers.

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Are Professional Athletes entertainers?

serious poll, 2 options, no salad.
 
more votes. we have 4.
 
Man I'd say yes and no. Their by product is to entertain but it's not their main goal. Unlike an actor who's only goal is to entertain. I guess win snooty awards too but it's a gay form of subjective "winning" unlike sports which is black and white.
 
Obviously. If they didn’t entertain, they wouldn’t get paid.
 
I would say that they are paid athletes who people find entertainment watching.

Guys like Barry Sanders and Marvin Harrison played the game without trying to be clowns, but their talent was still very entertaining.
 
stakesarehigh said:
Man I'd say yes and no. Their by product is to entertain but it's not their main goal. Unlike an actor who's only goal is to entertain. I guess win snooty awards too but it's a gay form of subjective "winning" unlike sports which is black and white.
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I’d argue that actors, at least good ones, aren’t thinking about entertaining when they’re doing their job. Musicians, maybe while playing live, but not so much when writing/recording. By your standard, the only people who would fit the definition would be birthday party magicians or clowns or something.
 
How many times are you and your girlfriend @ill going do this?
 
PackJason said:
I would say that they are paid athletes who people find entertainment watching.

Guys like Barry Sanders and Marvin Harrison played the game without trying to be clowns, but their talent was still very entertaining.
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They don’t need to be clowns if their talent is entertaining. They are bing paid, a lot, because they entertain. They can think of their job description as athletes, they can think their purpose is to play well and win, but at the end of the day they’re paid because people find that stuff entertaining.
 
stakesarehigh said:
Man I'd say yes and no. Their by product is to entertain but it's not their main goal. Unlike an actor who's only goal is to entertain. I guess win snooty awards too but it's a gay form of subjective "winning" unlike sports which is black and white.
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Yeah, but "snooty awards" are things like Pro Bowl selections, golden gloves and Vezina trophies. Not NAACP Image awards and whatever the hell an ESPY is.

Play a sport, entertain the fans, try to win a championship for your city. We gave up long ago on these guys being role models, and there's now some sneaky, back-alley way of Colin Kaepernicking going on, where these guy can apparently play wherever they can for the most money, be horrible teammates, but because they say they care about what the non-billionaire little people in the street do, can moralize to us from above? Sorry, no. Fuck you, LeBron.
 
TheDayMan said:
They don’t need to be clowns if their talent is entertaining. They are bing paid, a lot, because they entertain. They can think of their job description as athletes, they can think their purpose is to play well and win, but at the end of the day they’re paid because people find that stuff entertaining.
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Well, there aren't very many players people find entertaining who aren't good at their sport.

I find scientific debates very entertaining, but I don't consider scientists entertainers.
 
Not really a better poll. In the other poll I put their job is to play and win, not entertain. Here I put it at entertainment.

The difference is contextual. Their job is to play to win. Their efforts are our entertainment.
 
PackJason said:
Well, there aren't very many players people find entertaining who aren't good at their sport.

I find scientific debates very entertaining, but I don't consider scientists entertainers.
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You probably aren’t paying to go watch lab work, or someone work out math problems though.
 
Orlando_Eagles said:
Not really a better poll. In the other poll I put their job is to play and win, not entertain. Here I put it at entertainment.

The difference is contextual. Their job is to play to win. Their efforts are our entertainment.
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Yeah, I think this is a good way to put it.
 
TheDayMan said:
You probably aren’t paying to go watch lab work, or someone work out math problems though.
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I'm not sure why that matters, but I did have to pay an entry fee to see NDT speak a few years ago.
 
PackJason said:
I would say that they are paid athletes who people find entertainment watching.

Guys like Barry Sanders and Marvin Harrison played the game without trying to be clowns, but their talent was still very entertaining.
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Marvin Harrison later became nino brown
 
PackJason said:
I'm not sure why that matters, but I did have to pay an entry fee to see NDT speak a few years ago.
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And guys like him, Carl Sagan, Bill Nye, make/made extra money for entertaining, or being entertainers.

And it matters because their work matters, and is valuable whether people find it entertaining or not. Sports wouldn’t have any value other than exercise if no one found them entertaining.
 
Yes they are entertainers. Just like you pay money to go see a concert. You pay money to go see athletes play. At the end of the day we all pay money for them to entertain us for a slotted amount of time
 
the purpose of this poll is what, again?
 
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