I'm not a sports person, in that I have no real investment in attending games for teams I'm not on, or don't know anyone on, but that sporting spirit can be a lot of fun. There's also good fic, I hear--at least, in hockey fandom, which I know slightly more about because I have friends in it.

Sports are indeed violent! Or can be. Which was nice, in that cathartic kind of way, because nowadays, I'm just like, gdi I wanna FUCK SHIT UP RIGHT NOW but I need it to be legal. >.> Circus is sorely lacking in the fucking up of shit, though given the nature of it, that's probably for the best. XD Speaking from personal experience, body checking (while not game-legal in soccer, which I played) is pretty epic. ;)