SPORTS PERPLEXITIES cut and pasted the blog of a friend, well worth it!: "I've never been what you would call a sports fan. My family is something Rarita, in this and some other issues, so I grew up in absolute ignorance, something tinged with contempt, any activity that is not made primarily to the head, especially from anyone who deserved the name infamous sports . My father, that made you an idea, had adopted, adapted to their way, the maxim of Concepción Arenal on crime: o pity gave the sport and the athlete , dictated when he thought that came to mind. (Not very often: was firm in his convictions, but discreet to express them.) And one of my brothers do not mind to say, whenever the circumstances so require, a gentleman with a clear conscience never not run. This phrase could be a good summary of the family attitude on the matter.
However over the years and the emancipation of the canons natural family my attitude toward the sport has been modified somewhat. As soon
own business I realized I had definite advantages, exercise, mental relaxation, temporary disconnection of other concerns, social life enrichment ...- and I applied with restraint, to try to procurármelas. I played handball, swam, trisqué in the bush. All activities that looked bad, could be considered sport. Fortunately, my family also has among its oddities of being tolerant of the eccentricities of each, and he politely as if he was aware of these disagreements mine, and some occasional another brother, for the familiar pattern. As long as you do not unnecessarily exhibited in public wearing sneakers, tracksuits and other atrocities dress code, and that would not be where you keep a lot of boots mountain and other implements after each use shameful, no one had anything to say.
But instead towards sport regarded as a spectacle, this is like
activity outside of that one is mere "follower" family intransigence must be more radical and, for this or for some other reason , more firmly rooted in me. The fact is that sports-entertainment, sports outside, my life has been all that: foreign. I've never experienced that I judge inexplicable
alienation in which the victory of a football team, for example, who have decided to find arbitrariariamente
"His" team , provides individuals afflicted with great joy, which are not based on any positive gain personal advantage from it, but exclusively in its decision
to rejoice. (And it still might have some explanation, because undoubtedly rejoice, whether for whatever reason, it is always nice. But then, correspondingly, their alienation leads them to decide, with equal lack of real support, sad when "his" team lost. And really sad ..!)
In this aspect has evolved a bit. I have come to admit that
some sports, like football or basketball, which are moved, varied and entertaining to watch, can be a spectacle for connoisseurs, and even laymen like me can spend some time looking at them, and come to appreciate and enjoy the intelligence or the timeliness of a play is conceived, or the skill with which it runs. Never I love, and of course, never have the slightest interest in earning one or the other, but I can get some fun watching them play.
In other
instead: athletics, cycling, formula 1 ... where nothing ever happens
of what a viewer is not prepared to learn without tedious and often unintelligible explanations earlier, I have never told that anyone can watch them over a minute without deciding thereupon going to do something more interesting, ie almost anything else. Is there anything more
objectively boring than watching people run around a track, or swim from one side to another in a pool, or jumping fences, bike or walk miles and miles of road? Can you imagine show more leaden than a fireball after turning around a circuit? And as the results, once again, I confess total and happily able to hypnotize myself to the point of believing that I really care who wins, or the minimum incentive have for me.
may be necessary to explain to the perfect understanding of all this I say, I lack at all, by nature, by education and by choice, the child
competitive drive. I've never had any interest in doing anything better
others. I'm interested in just doing things
well-understood by "good" how I met me
-. If someone else also makes "good", fine. I try to be altruistic and empathetic, and I wish for others all the good I want for me. That that "good" of the other proves to be estimated with a criterion-not mine, of course, that is only to my own satisfaction, "better" than mine, or mine better than yours, me
been lifelong absolutely indifferent. From my point of view there is neither need nor even the possibility to compare. Or is there some way to measure the respective satisfaction?
understand, however, there are activities, particularly sports, and games in general practice increases in interest as if you added incentive to "win" the other. The victory gives itself exactly the same, but the conventional
interest, not personal, players to get it as part of the rules and game mechanics. A tennis match would be more "structured" and therefore more boring, "and even longer, if it were not for both players strive to make the other fail. Scoring a goal would have no interest if the other team did not try to stop it. So yes, I admit it: some sports, none that I've practiced ever, thank God for his own mechanics require that each of the players strive to win the others.
But then, this interest in a rule victory over
game, one among the many mechanisms and conventions. No more important than any other rule or mechanism. A good player, therefore, should not show more interest in winning that for the enforcement of any of the rules, much less sacrifice the other rules to the goal of winning. A good player, for example, should not commit a foul to gain an advantage, or at least should not try to avoid the penalty if the perpetrator. Nor should it accept a victory thanks to a lack not sanctioned. I know what I say is an unrealistic utopia, the opposite of what actually happens every weekend week in football stadiums, but nonetheless I still think this is how it should be
in good sport
logic. and, of course, is how I understand it. Is not that precisely what is called sportsmanship
?
Because, despite the disdain towards
sports family concrete , yes I am educated, however, respect and sportsmanship
cultivation well understood: Do not give more importance to our purpose of winning any other conventions and rules that is the game, starting with the following manners and respect other players and interest sincere in playing in the same conditions and with the same opportunities as yourself. And I always surprised that more people fond of sports than me, which I suppose interest input and knowledge far superior to mine on everything related to it, give clear evidence in practice to ignore or belittle these fundamental attitudes and In fact, the contrary frontally at every opportunity. They are not isolated cases. They are the overwhelming majority, almost all say that, with very few honorable exceptions, the sports fans I know. In practice, someone is interested in sports, almost invariably, someone who is primarily interested victory "their" team, "their" broker "their" pilot "their" athlete, and only then, and according to the first interest, the technical details, plays sports and any other matter.
I have no choice but to suspect, strongly, that is my lack of interest in sports and my lack of competitiveness that make me be more "sporty" than any of the enthusiasts to the sport and passion for that victory is a matter little less than life or death. And then to conclude that the more
athlete is someone less
sports shows .. "
are also interesting reflections of the comments.
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