Gordon doesn't care about sports. There was a a time before Black Mesa when he competed in downhill mountain bike racing, when he got the chance. He came very close to a regional championship before taking a nasty tumble at close to fifty miles an hour and breaking his collarbone; somehow he managed to get up and get back on the bike and cross the finish line before passing out. millicanon backstory created entirely to justify FPS protagonist levels of toughness and balance whut
Shephard used to pay attention to a couple of college sports teams back when such things existed. He played ice hockey and rugby in Rowlesburg and kept up the rugby thing in the Marines, although that was pretty much purely intramural, not pro. He is firmly of the opinion that if rugby were supposed to be easy they would have called it football. Also, soccer is not football, it is soccer. (Yes, I know. Character parochialism, not mun parochialism.)
Cartoon!Ray is a Mets fan, as there is at least one reference to him having season tickets during a 'but the world's about to end' scene. The Ray I've played in the Bar has been Millicanoned as a Yankees fan. Beyond that he doesn't care about sports to any recognizable degree, although he may occasionally go to Islanders games with his nephews.
Medic and Mordin don't care. Varric is from a world where professional sports don't exist.
Ellen is vaguely aware that professional sports used to exist- I'm half inclined to say that Vault 101's collection of classic films included Pride of the Yankees and maybe something inspirational about an American team beating the pants off some filthy filthy Commies- but by her time, they don't exist any more. She did once encounter a gang of raiders who had taken it into their heads that ice hockey was a nationwide form of gladiatorial combat before the Great War and that they were going to find an old Nuka-Cola formula for clear Nuka-Cola and use that to somehow bring back the glory days of the ice gangs, so, uh, yeah.
And then there's Santo. He's El Santo, for God's sake, he's a Mexican cultural icon and sports superstar. Yes, lucha libre is as fixed as American wrestling, but within his canon it's real (and capable of defeating Martians, wolfmen, Moon Nazis, and global counterfeiting rings), so professional sports have made him the most famous man in Mexico.
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millicanon backstory created entirely to justify FPS protagonist levels of toughness and balance whutShephard used to pay attention to a couple of college sports teams back when such things existed. He played ice hockey and rugby in Rowlesburg and kept up the rugby thing in the Marines, although that was pretty much purely intramural, not pro. He is firmly of the opinion that if rugby were supposed to be easy they would have called it football. Also, soccer is not football, it is soccer. (Yes, I know. Character parochialism, not mun parochialism.)
Cartoon!Ray is a Mets fan, as there is at least one reference to him having season tickets during a 'but the world's about to end' scene. The Ray I've played in the Bar has been Millicanoned as a Yankees fan. Beyond that he doesn't care about sports to any recognizable degree, although he may occasionally go to Islanders games with his nephews.
Medic and Mordin don't care. Varric is from a world where professional sports don't exist.
Ellen is vaguely aware that professional sports used to exist- I'm half inclined to say that Vault 101's collection of classic films included Pride of the Yankees and maybe something inspirational about an American team beating the pants off some filthy filthy Commies- but by her time, they don't exist any more. She did once encounter a gang of raiders who had taken it into their heads that ice hockey was a nationwide form of gladiatorial combat before the Great War and that they were going to find an old Nuka-Cola formula for clear Nuka-Cola and use that to somehow bring back the glory days of the ice gangs, so, uh, yeah.
And then there's Santo. He's El Santo, for God's sake, he's a Mexican cultural icon and sports superstar. Yes, lucha libre is as fixed as American wrestling, but within his canon it's real (and capable of defeating Martians, wolfmen, Moon Nazis, and global counterfeiting rings), so professional sports have made him the most famous man in Mexico.