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You must have forgotten that Niels Bohr was an olympic athlete as well as a nobel prize winner in physics.

Yeah, never mind the 99.99% of Nobel winners that aren't/weren't athletes.

The point was that being a tremendous athlete and an intellectual/scientist aren't mutually exclusive.

Edit: Also, astronauts.

So there's that.

You're confusing the physicist Niels with his mathematician brother Harald. Niels did play soccer but never on the national team.

You say that as though modern politics isn't a bunch of people mindlessly rooting for their favorite team.

No, it's not. What you describe is the political theater - another form of circus. All decisions are made behind closed doors by very smart people.

The owners and general managers who run sports franchises aren't just as adept?

What is the difference?

You've clearly never been to Yankee Stadium.