FoxTrot Classics by Bill Amend for September 15, 2021

Know of any schools with a video game sports team? No, I don’t include colleges & universities.

The original NES used to poke into my hands.

Seems like Jason and Marcus should be hanging around with those guys.

Youth today depend so much on smart-phone communications, that the ability to text is exceptionally important to finding a mate and reproducing.

This will lead to a race of large-thumbed individuals.

In the future as an attractive girl walks by, men are likely to remark, “Get a load of the thumbs on her!”

This strip is quite prescient. Esports is much more popular with kids today than watching traditional sports.

What is the B button for, Blast?

They also look like they have the measles!

P.S., Peter, you’re already cut from the team…

My alma mater college now has an actual esports arena. An arena.

This story was certainly ahead of its time.

Ah, as the folk wisdom has it, everyone has at least one “special talent”, but it may not be apparent at first.

I like the numbers on their jerseys. The infinity sign and the Pi symbol. Perfect for a couple of nerds.

Sounds like he’s about to het drafted.

And it’s even harder with only three fingers and a thumb.

I was on the Math Team in high school and we never once had cheerleaders bother to show up for our meets

The thing is…high school e-sports are not too unlikely nowadays. They probably already have them in Korea.