Allow me to step in here. I used to play Football when I was 13. My team placed 3rd in British Columbia, and we won the pre-season tournament, so I can say we were a very competitive team. I have also been a keen gamer since that wonderful day I got a Nintendo at he age of 6.
Losing a sports game is exactly as frustrating as losing a video game. Replace faulty mechanics with biased or half-assed refereeing, and replace lazy AI design with actual cheating and there you go. At least when a video game cheats, you personally don't sustain injury. As a wide receiver, it was my job to get past the Flanker to be open for the ball. This is often achieved by dexterity, which I am capable of, but since I actually started playinmg as an Offensive Lineman, I found it much more satisfying to go over or through said Flanker. Eventually, he grabbed my face mask and twisted, resulting in a pinched nerve, and 3 weeks off the field for me. Neither I, nor any of my friends have EVER done violence to each other over a video game, even when somebody DID cheat just to Troll you for a round.
Later in life, we moved and I was put into Rugby. (This turned out to be my dad lying to me about there being a football program because Rugby is cheaper and more "prestigious" in the community we moved to.) This was when I fist beat up another human being. During the scrum at practice, I was punched in the short-ribs by a MEMBER OF MY OWN TEAM. When I asked him what his problem with me was, he said I shouldn't take it personally, and that that was how Rugby is played. I calmly asked the Coach if this was 1) True and 2) allowed in the rules. It is ABSOLUTELY true, and it is 100% AGAINST THE RULES. So needless to say, the dumb-ass was quite surprised when I rounded on him, dropped him and Punched his face a few times. EVERY rugby player in the world, as well as most professional Soccer players, are cheap, cowardly, weak Humans, who have to get their shots in after the Buzzer - Like pressing the Cheap Shot button in Fight Night 3 right at bell, so you don't get penalized for kneeing your opponent's Balls. These sports, which feature NO LEGAL CONTACT BETWEEN players, are in fact the MOST rife with violence, including punches, deliberate kicks with cleats on and biting each other.
You will probably never see an MLG event where one player physically hits a member of another team during a match.
Whereas in 2 separate sports, I have been Legally assaulted. These sports have such a skewed viewpoint that it took me 2 meetings with the Surrey Rugby League to prove to them that not only was I within my rights to bring legal action against the League, but I was correct in defending myself from future assaults by demonstrating to the aforementioned Idiot that I was more than capable of doing him sever injury, but had the discretion not to.
Don't even TRY to bring up Hockey Fights: those are agreed upon and gentemanly bouts of Fisticuffs, and PERMITTED in the rules of the game.