Jock Dad, Nerd Son

Tends to be a High School trope. when a father was a jock in high school (usually marks his glory days) while his son pursues less athletic endeavors, usually to the father's disappointment. Related to a Billy Elliot Plot, but is part of the underlying characterization as opposed to a single episode plot.

Live-Action TV

 * Sheldon on The Big Bang Theory often talked about how his father forced him to learn football.
 * In Grounded for Life, Henry wants to sign up for tap dancing, but his dad pushes him to do a more "masculine" sport like soccer.
 * Brian from Still Standing tends to be a nerd, and his dad doesn't approve.

Web Comics
"Roy: Well I hate to break it to you dad, but this isn't the end of the line. More like half-time. Eugene: What? How can you halve time itself? Roy: *Sigh* I should have known a sports metaphor would be wasted on you."
 * Inverted with Roy Greenhilt and his father, Eugene, of The Order of the Stick. Roy chose a career as a fighter class as opposed to a wizard like his father, which are seen as a jock and nerd class at least in universe. Played straight with Eugene and his father, Horace, who had inspired Roy's career path. Interestingly, Roy was apparently a nerd compared to other fighters.

Western Animation
"Hiccup: [sarcastically imitating Stoick] Excuse me, barmaid! I'm afraid you brought me the wrong offspring! I ordered an extra-large boy with beefy arms, extra guts and glory on the side! This here, this is a talking fishbone!"
 * A constant source of contention between Steve and Stan Smith of American Dad. Stan constantly tries to help his son with various "masculine" activities to avoid
 * This is the case between Chicken Little and his father in the film of the same name.
 * On one episode of Dexter's Laboratory, Dexter's dad tries to teach him how to do sports, but is always thwarted by Dee Dee.
 * Hiccup from How to Train Your Dragon would be this to his father Stoick the Vast. Scrawny little nerd-boy in a society of huge, fierce, dragon-fighting Vikings.


 * One episode of The Simpsons shows us Prof. Frink's dad, who, although also an academic, is more of the Adventurer Archaeologist sort.