Sunday used to be the day for Sports! Softball practice in the morning, baseball on TV all afternoon and into the evening. Later in the year, football. When we weren’t playing sports, we were watching sports.
Yeesh, the time I wasted!
No mas, no mas. The seats Patty and I used to get in Yankee Stadium now cost ten times as much, if not more. A 5-cent pack of baseball cards, with gum, now costs $5–without gum. Not to mention Gay Day at the ol’ ballpark. I thought you used sports to get away from stuff like that.
Oh, but playing sports, and not just watching!
It’s as bad as politics. You want to learn what’s dirty about politics? Join a men’s softball team. Whispering, backbiting, forming little cliques that politic against each other–all that fun you can have without ever picking up a bat. Or try basketball at the YMCA. Guys you know in ordinary life as friends and co-workers turn into werewolves on the basketball court.
Sports brings out the worst in people. After a lifetime of playing and watching sports, that’s what I’ve learned.
Have you noticed there are no “sports” in the Bible? Except for a passing mention of the gladiatorial games in Ephesus (1 Corinthians 15:32)–trust the Romans to provide that.
Yeh, sports bore me to death. How about a nice hymn by Carroll Roberson: Down From His Glory.
Sports has certainly declined. I can’t imagine that people spend their time on fantasy football, there’s no relationship between that and what would happen in a real game, there are far too many variables in reality.
I was never in Little League, but I’ve heard that it’s become exceptionally political, with parents making life miserable for coaches who don’t put their child out front in the lineup.
These days, I watch very little in the way of sports. Every sport I can think of has become more about show business than about the sport itself.
Former Little Leaguers were the bane of our softball team.
In Arkansas it is almost required to be a Razorback fan because it has only one school that is nationally competitive, and going to their football games is pretty exciting – but I am not really a fan. I couldn’t tell you any of the players or coaches’ names. When I watch the local news (mostly for the weather forecast) they have sports coverage at the end but I always change the channel. My sport is seeing if Trump can beat all the made-up criminal charges he is in court for and will they actually put him in prison.