Ever been at a party where someone casually brings up football? Everyone who doesn’t care about football rolls their eyes as “that guy” begins to talk about Ohio State or the Cincinnati Bengals and how their team is the sign of the coming apocalypse. Someone brings up that neither team has been so hot recently and “that guy” begins to rapidly and flawlessly recite football statistics. Others look on with respect and envy.

However, if the subject is movies and you can name every John Carpenter movie from the 1980s in order, you’re a freak.

Why is knowing sports knowledge considered awesome and knowing everyone’s name in “Kelly’s Heroes” considered pathetic?

How is it that knowing Terrell Pryor, Dane Sanzenbacher, Cameron Heyward, Jordan Hall and DeVier Posey is better than knowing Oddball, Cowboy, Big Joe, Barbra, Kelly and Crapgame?

Some will argue that it’s because athletes are real people and movie characters are fictional.

Pop quiz:

Q1: Who is Marty McFly?

Q2: Who is Jim McMahon?

A1: The teenage time traveler in 1985’s “Back to the Future.”

A2: The quarterback for the Chicago Bears, who won the Super Bowl in 1985.

Which one did you know? Chances are it was the wise-cracking kid trying to get his parents to fall back in love.

Point is, sports stars fade away. Who is going to remember Troy Smith in 25 years? Who is going to remember Captain Jack Sparrow when you have grandkids?

Movie characters also fade away over time. People could care less about Snake Plissken nowadays despite the fact that he was the biggest badass from the 80s.

What I’m saying is that there is virtually no difference between knowing tons of movie trivia and knowing tons of sports trivia. It’s all a matter of personal taste.

Personally, I LOVE movies; I spend a couple hours a week browsing Netflix for new favorites and I love reading the trivia section of IMDB.com.

I can’t stand sports. They bore me to death and I couldn’t care less about every single one of them.

As much as I hate sports, I won’t make fun of someone for enjoying them, unless it’s pro-wrestling. So why do people sneer and snicker whenever I bring up that I have roughly eight movies memorized?

If you love sports, good for you! I wish your respective franchises great success in their upcoming seasons; just please quit calling me a dork whenever I recite “Return of the Jedi” from memory.