I own a share in ALL of the publicly funded ones.
Let me guess... you belonged to the chess club?
You say that like it would be a badge of shame. I don't think an intellectual pursuit like chess is any less deserving of respect than some talentless, neanderthal pursuit like football. I would guess that in all of human history, those who helped make the world a better place were far more often chess players than football gorillas.
“... those who helped make the world a better place were far more often chess players than football gorillas”.
You are right, IJ. The chess type players were the people who left England to come to America. The chess type players were also the ones to fight in the Revolution. I am sure close to 100% of the men fought on Iwo Jima were chess players. Google West Point and Naval Academy football players. An interesting person was Pete Dawkins (West Point class of 1959). Brigadier General, Heisman Tophy Maxwell award winner, Rhodes Scholar, Ph.D from Princeton, paratrooper, recipient of two Bronze Stars during Vietnam, and the only cadet in history to be a Brigadier Commander, President of his class, captain of the football team and a “Star Man” (top 5% of his class academically. Your issue is that you see black and white. A man with strong athletic ability cannot possess intellect. An intelligent man cannot possess strong athletic quality. Check mate.