Thursday, September 16, 2004

half-hearted sports rant

Why is it when watching a sport, we associate ourselves with one team and count its victory as cause for shelling out some hard-earned cash for celebrations? Alright, monetary spendings aside for a minute, why is it the victory of the Greek football team or Man Utd's chances of beating Arsenal cause us to spend ourselves on it? Getting subcontinent specific, why is it everyone goes nuts over cricket matches? Does Pakistan's winning or losing and how many times it has faced XYZ team and how many out of those were won by Pakistan affect us ordinary mortals at all? We beat India in a game, big whoop, their economy is kicking ours' ass.

I used to watch cricket as a group activity many years ago. Either my family or my friends would sit about altogether and watch a match, but that was like dinner together. More the company than the actual sport. Yet, even now met full grown men fond of spouting off facts and figures and (the extreme cases) getting their hair styled the same was as a certain football star and wearing their sports hero's number and name shirts.

Misha at Thursday, September 16, 2004

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