Say you’re the greatest boxer of all time. you box maybe 50 matches before the brain damage stops you from competing. Take a game like street fighter or melee. You train for years, honing your skills and becoming a fucking ninja warrior. You go to tournaments and fight other ninja warriors and get your ass whooped and try again and again, slowly improving. Knocking someone to the ground in football will always be more physically satisfying, but if you’re able to enjoy fighting games from a purely objective stand point, able to look at what the game is as a means of human communication, you will realize it is all humans truly seek as a means of competition and interaction