I have thrown a ball through hoops many times in my life and always found it enjoyable. I sprained my ankles in junior high and quit team activities.
I have always enjoyed the mechanics of baseball, basketball and football as the relationship to accuracy with the ball lies with one’s touch on the ball. Throw one and it is apparent.
However much I, or anyone else may like them, these are simple games that receive far too much notice with players that are paid far too much money for doing that which every kid in America does for fun.
These are considered professional sports played by multimillionaires that are worshiped by young and old alike.
Wake up people! It is high stakes entertainment and nothing more.
Why are Olympians told to “let the games begin” as they commence? Are track and field events mere games?
Why does the umpire say “play ball” at the beginning of a baseball game? When a football or basketball team is through playing the players say they had a good or bad “game”, correct?
The reason I place basketball in the title is because their finals are taking place. The overall favorite, the San Antonio Spurs, are somewhat of a dynasty. I don’t know how long Duncan can last but the rest of the team keeps going. Too bad they didn’t turn on the championship mode while Robinson was a young man. He and Duncan were fun to watch.
The Cleveland Cavaliers overpay Lebron Who? and I have thought that to be one of the fallacies of the game.
Of the three – baseball, football and basketball – basketball is the least demanding. Sure, the players have to sprint back and forth from bucket to bucket but other than drinking Gatorade that’s it.
Ya know what? I have never seen football or baseball played by paraplegics in wheelchairs. Those games are far more demanding. A right fielder may have a slow night in a baseball game but the distances he has to cover at speed offensively as well as defensively are beyond that of basketball. Basketball is a lot of faked fouls – those guys can milk it.
Baseball is hit, catch, run; period. And everyone has to be able to do it. The American league has the designated hitter rule for the pitcher that the National league doesn’t but big whoop-dee-do.
Football is a whole different story. I played with full armor in school – it is fun and it hurts. I played left D tackle in a south Texas school. Basketball (guard) was a breeze and baseball (1st base) was sheer joy. Football was fun because I got to wear pads and hit for real. Think “Friday Night Lights” and you have it because that is the way it is.
I did all of this for free. I have a classmate that played for the Raiders and now wears a Superbowl ring. They gave him steroids in college as well as at the pro level.
I find it appalling that people will pay $100 to watch millionaires play games. I find it even more so that some owner will pay a player millions of dollars to play a game.
I am troubled by the fact school teachers are paid so little while the heroes of school hoodlums are millionaires that play games.
My sister is a teacher. Does she do it for the money?
It is an honorable profession that far too many parents take for granted. She doesn’t earn what educators should and that is near criminal. Children are sent to schools to hopefully gain some education and an insight to life from those such as my sister. She does it because she likes it and has for years.
She doesn’t have a FATHEAD commercial nor are her daily exploits on highlight reels for fanfare. She doesn’t have a jersey with a number nor does she do commercials that would double her salary.
She attends BSU at present and I had an opportunity to walk on the BLUE football field.
Whatever happened to PROFESSIONAL TEACHERS, POLICEMAN, FIREMEN, EMTs, PLUMBERS and slew of other people that actually get us through the day?
PROFESSIONAL ATHLETES are paid more than enough to do so, how about making them do the jobs once a week?
