The younger generation not playing sports, or in lieu of that getting together to play video games online together, or with strangers rather than doing it in real life is not good. Whether it is football, hockey, hide and go seek or tag. At least that pokemon go phase had them going outside to do it, although having hoardes of zombies walking around in packs was a bit annoying at times.
You assume that because they can’t throw a football, that they are not playing hockey. Or go and playing hide and seek. That assumption is on you so that you can condemn the younger generation for playing video games.
It is a safe assumption, and I'm sure there is a correlation between those that can throw a football and those that can play hockey. Just the same as there is between video game addicts and not going out. A bit of video games once in a while is fine, just the same as having a cheeseburger once in a while. Some tend to over do it.
Either very honest or very sarcastic. If it is the latter that means you aren't a loser.
I'm gonna go slightly off topic here and say that the kids who grew up playing video games instead of group sports, or who interacted on social media rather than in person, missed out on important socialization opportunities and the learning of interpersonal skills that earlier generations learned as a matter of course.
This can go for everyone though. Video games started decades ago. Most non-athletic people I know playing video games are grown adults. Young teens are still out doing things. You can’t blame everything on "youth of today". It was the youth of 2-3 decades ago.
Youth football league's are virtually non existent compared to hockey and soccer. Most kids play the more popular sports. Lots of kids also fill the outdoor basketball courts. Football is just not popular these days.
Well I could make an argument for how the future will turn out with the current youth of today and the problems they will have growing up in the new frontier of social media, the internet and video games replacing what previous generations had in their stead, but that was never the point. The point is that going out and being social and playing sports and being active is better than being indoors and antisocial and playing video games all day. One could even argue that adults that do that, are still children themselves. As for the blame, I blame the boomers. Worst generation ever. Handed the world on a plate and shafted future generations.
The example of not being able to throw a ball is a symptom of the actual issue, which could be worthy of some concern. But that's probably over your head.
And to extrapolate on that somewhat, because of the greatly diminished time kids have nowadays not interacting with each other in person, they will be greatly lacking in interpersonal skills and verbal communication skills which then results in greatly lowered dispute resolution skills. As kids, we'd play with our friends and occasionally get into fights. But the very next day, bygones would be bygones and we'd all be playing together again.
