Are eSports Real Sports? - Get Geekish - Episode 25, August 8, 2018

Okay, let me be the first to admit, that when Derek came to me with a podcast idea about eSports being "real" sports, I was ready to throw them under the bus. But after a bit of research and looking into the meteoric rise of competitive gaming, I'm ready to concede that eSports can fall under the "sports" umbrella. (Hey, if people can classify chess, poker, and NASCAR as sports, then I think gaming can find its own niche. -Beano

Here is the League of Legends video I referred to in the podcast that shows sport and TV analysts badmouth eSports intermixed with footage of packed arenas cheering on professional gamers. It's not quite "Rudy" or "Remember the Titans", but I will say it got me jazzed up about League of Legends, which I've never actually played.