Nearly half of the students in a Campus Current poll said they’re just not that into sports.
In an informal poll of 50 students on campus, 26 said they enjoy sports and 24 said they really don’t.
And of the 24 students who aren’t into sports, 20 said they find it boring.
“I never understand [sports], and I’m like, ‘This is a good thing we’re watching?’” Kassidy Golden, a first-year transfer studies student, said. “They’re like, ‘Yeah, it was a good move.’ I was like, ‘Alright.’”
Others who said they don’t like sports said games aren’t interesting, are too complicated, or lead to injuries.
According to a Pew Research Center survey, 60% of Americans are not interested in following sports.
Still, plenty of AACC students said they like watching and playing sports.
“It’s … impressive to see what people can, like, push their bodies to accomplish and then … the team aspect of it,” Nathaniel Wofford, a second-year public health student, said.
Still, some AACC students said they grew up playing and bonding over sports.