Funny thing about sports

The funny thing about sports is that everyone thinks that they are experts at them. Everyone watches so much sports and sees so much that they think they can out-coach, out-prepare, out-draft and out-everything for an entire sports organization. They think they can coach the players better, run better plays than the coaches, draft and trade better than general managers and run the organization better than those that work in it.

It's funny, and I can't figure out why this is. Imagine doing that for another sector of the economy, like banks, insurance companies or airplane builders. You just wouldn't tell them how to run, or assume you could do a better job than they could. Sports seems to be a totally different story. It makes me laugh.

No, you can't play better than the athlete on the field. I always laugh when people say "I could do that." Well if you could, you would be on the team.

Fans mistakenly think that their years of experience watching games replaces the years of experience that coaches have watching, playing and coaching games. They think those experiences watching games also qualify them to think they can better run the business of sports even though those in the business understand the uniqueness of the industry and also have experience running teams.