Are you one of the over two hundred of million Americans who like sports? Sports is a big industry and there are so many types of sports that nearly everyone can find something they like. There is Soccer, Baseball, Football, wrestling, hockey, NASCAR, Golf, sports fishing, bowling, bicycle racing and extreme sports. And we have added card playing, chess tournaments and even the Reno Air Races. And we have our favorite Heroes too; like Pele, Wayne Gretsky, Tiger Woods, Lance Armstrong and hundreds of household names in Basketball, Baseball and Football, not to mention all the celebrities in auto racing.

But why do Americans love sports so much? Well it is not just Americans who love sports it is the human race, which loves competition. The Aztec, Romans and Greeks loved their sports too. Humans like competition and so it is an innate characteristic of our species. Even our nearest neighboring species of carbon based bi-peds the great apes and chimpanzees seem to enjoy playful competition and definitely competition for the position of the Alpha Male which appears to be innate as well. We watch our pets at home, we see dogs compete for a toy or bone, we see cats stock each other and play and if you watch the similarities of children even at very early ages in sand boxes you will see the same thing.

Perhaps it is these tendencies, which drew you towards sports as a kid. And now as an adult you too love to watch the competition, for fear that getting involved in to much competition above and beyond a little friendly game might get you injured, but still to this day you are drawn to the competition. We all are and it is a good thing, as if you were not drawn to sports it might be because you were no longer alive and many feel if they did not have sports in their life that they may as well be dead. Interesting insights. Think on this.