Fatbeards are quite different to CPM's though surely?  Practically all game designers are fat men with beards and glasses but they tend not to be social retards.

Also, I think most sport fans are less inclined to holy war than your average gamer.  When I'm not here I post on a comedy forum and frequently take part in the football discussions and you never have someone be called a "hater" for not liking Peter Crouch or someone saying that while you may very well support Chelsea, they aren't the team that they support and it's not nice to suggest that they're wrong.  Tell your average sports fan their team sucks and they'll either agree or they'll calmly point out that actually they do have some good players.  Bizarrely, sports fans identify far more with a team than gamers but they are far less quick to take on the language of identity politics.

I think this is because gamers are over-educated and under-socialised when in comparrison with sports fans.