Sunday, February 3, 2008
The roar of the crowd
While my wife was waiting for me to finish brewing coffee so we could watch an old psychological drama we had taped, she turned the TV on to a football game. From the kitchen I could hear its white-noise babble. I'd never realized before how desperate is the sound a huge football mob makes, a numbing cacaphony of insignificant tones, like the sound of the distant interstate, or the rumble of lemmings hurling themselves toward the sea, or the mindless chatter of atonishment bouncing about the ductwork of the insane asylum.
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As always, you make your opinion well known. Does your disdain for Professional Football extend to all sports? Are they any that you enjoy watching? What’s your opinion of folks that enjoy seeing a game? Do you think of them a lemmings? Just curious.
ReplyDeleteMy disdain extends to most professional sports and to intercollegiate athletics as currently practiced; that is, to contests engaging big money and fanaticism.
ReplyDeleteIf a person can "enjoy seeing a game" without being a fanatic about it, then I have no moral objection (that I can think of at the moment). Fanatics are indeed a bit desperate, mad, and lemming-like, don't you agree?
Fanatics can indeed be all of the above. I find that the debate over religion, brings the desperate, mad, and lemming-like people out in larger numbers than sports. One advantage in watching a sporting event, it will end. The other debate will never end.
ReplyDeleteSome of us much more enjoy participating in a rational discussion than we do watching other people fight over what happens to an over-inflated bladder.
ReplyDeleteIndeed, though, WorldPhotos4, you're right. Religious fanatics can be much, much worse that sports fanatics, but in a way different from what you suggest. Football and soccer (and other) sports hooligans have been responsibile for many deaths, but the number is almost insignificant compared with the number of deaths fomented by religious fanatics, who are currently active not only on weekends but on every other day of the week as well.
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