Participants Versus Spectators

I have been a participant in all of the sports in my life throughout my whole life. I was always a spectator as well but I definitely preferred and primarily acted as a participant. It is just recently that I am taking more of a spectator’s role in the sports in my life. This is because of a lot of the reasons that the author of the text book explained in this section. When I was younger, sports were such an enjoyable experience for me, but as I grew older it become much more competitive and I couldn’t see myself committing to such a rigorous athletic lifestyle past the varsity high school level. My involvement in sports today is based much more on intrinsic goals and rewards rather than the extrinsic goals i once went for. 

Now that I have begun to move on from participating in organized sports, I have begun to watch them a lot more closely and actively. I have a lot of things going on in every day life that make it difficult to maintain a physical activity regimen. Because of this, it is much easier to follow the professional athletes and their teams during my spare time. Just as the top sport for spectators in America is professional and college football, those are also the top sports that I like to watch.