You have hardcore sports fans and casual sports fans.
By no means are the hardcore sports fans "professional" fans. That would be ridiculous. They just follow a lot closer than a casual fan with not much more than a passing interest.
And by no means are hardcore sports fans so dedicated to watching sports that they forsake any and all other obligations in life either.
No different than any other hobby, gaming included.
But it's mainly within gaming that there's this warped, artificial sense of elitism, probably because of the traditional background of the stereotypical gamer.







