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PaperclipPerfector  20hr ago (text post)   783 thread views

Friday Fun Thread for September 25, 2026

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I am thinking about sports and a persons personality. So my question is does your personality fit a specific sports position/role even if your body type ability doesn’t fit doing that?

I was thinking about this and I find myself having a personality that favors defense over offense in sports. I have a lot of fun figuring out how other players are trying to beat me and being able to stop them even if their a better athlete or if say a defense breaks down and the offense has two threats being able to figure out which one has the highest expected scoring chance and taking that away. On offense something similar as a facilitator rather than the scorer. In football I would be a safety, in basketball a low-scoring pg or maybe wing, hockey a defenseman, and in soccer I guess a midfielder.

If I were 6’6 300 lb my body type would be an offensive tackle. But I don’t think it fits my personality. Which makes me curious if my body type was different would my personality of adjusted because I always played that role?

Didn’t include baseball because I think baseball players have personalities I can’t imagine.

Does anyone say completely have the personality and can visualize being an OL but don’t have the physical ability. WR in the nfl always seem to have loud personalities. Look at me types.

Mark Bowden's Bringing the Heat has some good reflections on the psychology of defensive vs offensive American football, kept me entertained even though I don't really care about football. My dad played center in HS and college, and the book definitely tracks.

I've been attracted to strength sport and endurance sport at various points in my life, solitary number-go-up type stuff. Wouldn't say I'm exceptionally well-suited to either, but also not exceptionally poorly-suited, though definitely not one of Nature's grimpeurs.

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