The Olympics

[Henry Musikar]

This analysis sounds like the "My kid beat up your honor student" 
bumper stickers. There is a lot of healthy exercise without organized 
sports. I enjoy Org. Spor. in moderation myself. I always say:
everything in moderation, especially moderation.

On  7 Aug 96 at 11:44, David Nevin Friedman wrote:



> Those who view sports in the context of bastardized professional
> sports are missing the primal urge to exrcise their body, not their
> mind.  If I am in now way physically disable, why would I not want
> to participate in sports?  That there are those who corrupt sports
> and physical activity by putting wishes of fortunes ahead of the
> sheer fun and benefit of physical activity is irrelevant.  It seems
> to me those who do not like sports for what they are--fun--has some
> sort of complex about being beaten up in the palyground in
> kindergarten.
> 
> David Friedman
> namdeirf at gwis2.circ.gwu.edu
> 
> Ignorance breeds complicity.
> 
> On Tue, 6 Aug 1996, Peter Romanienko wrote:
> 
> >         If I have nothing erudite to say about some Pynchon
> >         matter, at
> > least I can fulminate about sports and the like. It's just like
> > religion and has become the new opiate of the masses. When I hear
> > friends and just strangers talk about how we (meaning whatever
> > autochthonous team) did last night or what we need to do is this
> > and rattle off the last 3 years of some running backs average
> > yardage per game, or run, or season a-and give stats that make my
> > head reel ( but he sure would make a great trivial pursuit partner
> > who could compensate for my complete ignorance ((purposeful)) of
> > sports trivia) I just can't feel anything but pity.
> >         I think sports at an amateur level is good for the
> >         exercise and
> > teamwork aspect, but it eventually gets poisoned by overzealous,
> > egomaniacal little-league coaches and high-schools that are known
> > for their continuing state championships and lowest 10th
> > percentile reading scores whose students only go on to college if
> > they can throw a ball. People should get a life and not allow
> > passive involvement to be their savior. I know some families that
> > center around a sports team or event without which any quality
> > time would be non-existant. And to top it all off, while leafing
> > through a tuxedo catalog looking for a tux style for my impending
> > marriage, I see vests with football team logos emblazoned on them.
> > I could picture it now... Do you promise to love, honor, obey,
> > a-and root-root-root for the home team, Go GIANTS, Yeah!!! Woof,
> > Woof, Woof !!! I'd walk out of that church in a second, of course
> > wondering what came over me to go inside in the first place. My
> > $.02 of non-Pynchon posting.
> > 
> > Peter Romanienko
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Keep cool, but care. -- TRP