double post...
hmmm...while we're here...a few "sport" related things to think about...
*competitive walking is exactly like a contest to see who can "whisper the loudest"
*a typical "hash-house harriers" enthusiast is accurately described as a "big drinker with a small running problem"
"the NBA should consider a major rule change next year: give each team 90 points and play the last 3 minutes"
*the two most popular of American team sports actually have very little to do with athletic competition..it is far more helpful to think of them as "frequently interrupted legal proceedings with specialized equipment"...of American sports, only hockey and baseball have any sort of flow and in these two sports it is the players themselves (gasp!) who largely determine the game's outcome...in basketball and football, officiating is now the single largest determinant of each game's "winner"
*if you watch at least three Australian Rugby League (the NRL) matches on a live stream once the season kicks in...you will never want to watch the NFL again...a dozen guys on each team playing a full 80 minutes, without ever "taking a knee", "calling a time out" or any of a dozen other over-manned, over-equipped pussifications of what North-Americans strangely call "Foot"ball...there is more running and tackling in 10 minutes of NRL than you'lll see in an entire three-hour NFL cockup
*the key determinant of winning an American Football game seems to be "milking more bad Pass-Interference calls, at more crucial times than your opponent"
*almost as bad as American Football at pissing you off is "real" Football/Soccer...where the name of the game is similarly "milking more undeserved red cards and penalty kicks than your opponents"...at least the soccer players are getting actual exercise tho'...as only about 15 minutes of a 60' minute footabll game involves, er...well, actually playing ANYthing...75% of the time the clock is running "in between" NOT during play
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in summary...the next time you think you are watching "sport"...ask yourself: are you watching a truly- competitive fairly-administered contest among atheletes?...or are you being "entertained" with contrived contentious horseshit designed to piss you off in an odd kind of way that makes you want us to see more?...in the vain hope that next time you'll somehow get a referee who finally sees that folding-chair being snuck into the ring...We like to think we're smarter than WWE fans...but they know the purpose of what they're watching...Do we?
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that is all