I get what sportsball jokes are considered gauche but like in my experience people who make them are largely people who went through some serious bully trauma in school at the hands of athletes who were worshiped and sided with by teachers and admin for being athletes. I have a few close friends like that. And like I said in another post the "Get over highschool" attitude actually kind of sucks ass because its usually telling people to just "get over" their bullying trauma. I feel like being dismissive of and looking down on sports is kind of just a trauma response in a lot of cases.