There's a pretty huge difference between watching people perform athletics in the real world vs someone performing a digital replication of something on screen holding a controller.
Watching Messi score an amazing goal in real life is a far more incredible feat and more thrilling to watch than some guy with a controller making Messi score an amazing goal in an EA FIFA competition.
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A few weeks after crashing head-first into the boards (denting his helmet and being unable to move for a little while) following a hit from behind by Bob Errey, the Calgary Flames player explains:
"I was like Christ, lying on my back, with my arms outstretched, crucified"
-- Frank Musil - Early January 1994
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