A man (or in this modern and politically correct time frame, a woman) who indulges in the pleasures of various sports, usually of the physical persuasion. This may include soccer, hockey, sex, football, rugger, cricket or ping-pong (this one is iffy). Sportsfellows tend to be easygoing (case and point, sporting) though when pushed via adversity, may display streaks of hypercompetivity.
Fogey/fogy /fougi/ sl. (early 18C+, orig. Scot) old-fashioned, stuck-in-the mud.
Person with old fashioned ideas which he is unwilling to change: Come to the disco and stop being such an old fogey!
You think me an old fogeyand an old tory, his thoughtful voice said. I saw three generations since O’Connel’s time. I remember the famine. Do you know that the orange lodges agitated for repeal of the union twenty years before O’Connel did or before the prelates of your communion denounced him as a demagogue? You fenians forget some things. (James Joyce, Ulysses. Penguin Books,1992. p. 38)