As I was browsing around for articles on tonights Bengals/Ravens game I ran across this article and this quote.
www.msnbc.msn.com/.../
"I mean, this isn't a soft sport. We don't play chess. This isn't swimming. This isn't one of those kind of sports. It's football. It takes a man to play this game, and to play this game you have to have passion.''
I had to laugh.
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To most people, anything that ESPN televises is a sport. It's just that all of us are inundated with the male sports: men's football, basketball, baseball. And swimming is televised only a couple of times a year or pre-Olympic Games.
Maybe it is because swimming is not a profit sport. I don't think I have ever heard of anyone coming up with a swimming pool like a football pool and everyone gets numbers and waits for outcome of a game (or swim) to find out who won the money in the pot.
It may be because swimming has not gone "pro." After that athletic scholarship is granted, the swimmer winds up in Masters or Triathlons. Both good places to be, but it is not the "pros" like football, etc.
Oh, and my brother-in-law was a Formula Atlantic pro driver for years. He did lift weights and spent a lot of time in saunas. But he did tell me that race car driving required a person to have tremendous motor skills (eye-hand coordination).
Donna
To most people, anything that ESPN televises is a sport. It's just that all of us are inundated with the male sports: men's football, basketball, baseball. And swimming is televised only a couple of times a year or pre-Olympic Games.
Maybe it is because swimming is not a profit sport. I don't think I have ever heard of anyone coming up with a swimming pool like a football pool and everyone gets numbers and waits for outcome of a game (or swim) to find out who won the money in the pot.
It may be because swimming has not gone "pro." After that athletic scholarship is granted, the swimmer winds up in Masters or Triathlons. Both good places to be, but it is not the "pros" like football, etc.
Oh, and my brother-in-law was a Formula Atlantic pro driver for years. He did lift weights and spent a lot of time in saunas. But he did tell me that race car driving required a person to have tremendous motor skills (eye-hand coordination).
Donna
