Sports Suck

They really do. I was talking with somebody at church Sunday about why we put ourselves through crushing losses. We should just quit rooting for teams because it hurts so much when they loose. Amen to that. The wins do not make up for the gut wrenching losses. Kentucky was eliminated in the Final Four. I never thought they were as good as everyone was saying and that a loss could come at any time. But it was still devastating. A Kentucky-Duke final would have had Super Bowl-like ratings I bet. But if we made it that far, we probably would have lost that game anyway. We had like four 7-footers, that's 28 feet, and got outrebounded by quite a bit in each of the last two games. And slowing it down with 6 minutes to go was a big mistake, Coach Cal. Why did we do that? And why did they let the visually impaired ref the game? So many questions. So few answers.

So add this loss to the Oregon Duck Championship FB loss, last year's Kentucky championship game BB loss, and my Special Olympics double overtime loss. So why do we keep watching sports if they are so painful? Here's my theory. We got nothing better to do and it puts some excitement in our lives. We don't have excitement otherwise, so we have to create teams, and leagues, and standings, and playoffs. Life was more interesting in days gone by. Will I have enough food to eat today? Will I get attacked by a bear? What if marauding hordes invade my village? That kind of stuff gets your attention. Now the big issues are what's on TV, what's for dinner, where's the remote?

One justification that people have for sports is that it builds character. No, it doesn't. If that were the case, then the most successful would be the ones who gained the most character. So how does that explain Barry Bonds, Lance Armstrong, Mike Tyson, O.J. Simpson, etc, etc. Someone said sports doesn't build character, it reveals it. So that's why we have sports in school? To reveal our character to each other? The bad athletes get beat down and the good ones get swelled heads. So that doesn't happen we give awards to everyone. Last year at my school in Kentucky some people didn't like that I wouldn't let everyone on all our teams have trophies just for participating.

We ought to repopulate our land with a bunch of dangerous animals and put excitement in our lives that way. Granted, crushing defeats with a wild animal has more dire consequences, but that would just increase the excitement.

By the way, even my bracket picks sucked. In my best ESPN bracket 1.8 million people did better than me. Pathetic. Bring on the wild animals.