But they're a lot more fun than the light shows, loud music and fan giveaways (with the notable exception of the T-shirt cannons) that pass for entertainment at sports arenas these days.
Perhaps as technology develops, diverges and becomes more ubiquitous, we'll be taking sides the same way we do sports teams: for personal reasons backed by hard facts and a spiffy T-shirt.
His success has taken him all over the world, and now to this couch where he was reclined, in a black T-Shirt and Dickies, stroking his Paul Bunyan beard and pretending to watch sports highlights.
And this could impact the sports business well beyond fans grumbling over another uptick in the price of, say, a hotdog or a T-shirt relative to the prior year.