> I think it's a bit of a waste of humanity to put so much importance on putting balls into goals, holes, hoops or elsewhere

Sports can be seen as something of an improvement over more lethal forms of inter-group conflict.

Fortunately tech oriented folks have invented "e-sports", which are competitions based on pressing keys on a keyboard or buttons on a game controller, and possibly moving and clicking a mouse in order to affect pixels on a screen.

Video games are even more pointless than sports.