Humanoid Robot Fighting Is Here To Finally Make Sports Violent Again
Ever since the word "concussion" was invented, the pussifcation of sports has been set into warp speed. You go back to the ancient Roman days of Gladiators, and you'd have combatants literally killing each other as a spectacle. Even going back to jousting in the medieval times, the idea was to spear the shit out of a dude in the chest. But nowadays, you can't even accidentally brush up against a quarterback's head without getting penalized. They've been trying to take fighting out of hockey for years.
I don't want to make light out of brain injuries, but it's getting kind of ridiculous here. The purpose of sports literally used to be as a training exercise for literal combat. I'm not saying we need to go back to those days, but we really lost control of the plot once team owners started to look at their star players as investments.
So here comes humanoid robot fighting. A chance for sports to finally get back to their roots. A chance to start from scratch. You can have two robots go into a ring and fight it out until only one is left standing. Throw a pair of skates on a robot, and now every hockey team can have an enforcer out there you don't have to worry about getting their brain bashed into a pulp. Sign a robot as a wide receiver on a football team. You can throw them the ball over the middle without having to care if they get completely obliterated. You can't get a traumatic brain injury if you don't have a brain. That's a fact. If the robot dies, the robot dies. Throw it a bowl of rice and get back out there.