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Thursday, July 7. 2005Getting Sports
I don't know if anybody here knows this, so I'm going to let you in on a secret. I like sports.
I like the camaraderie. I like the competition. I like the passion that goes with it. I like watching it. I like reading about it. I like listening to it. And despite what my physical appearance may suggest I like playing it. What I don't like, is the increasing evidence that the people who run sports, just don't get sports. Now I know that sports has turned into a huge business, and I'm okay with it, but it still bothers me when the people who are running the sports leagues, etc. don't get the first thing about what sports is about. Take for example the NHL. Because the two sides were so busy squabbling about inconsequential things they all lost track of the sport and have now missed an entire season. To top it all off Jeremy Roenick, actually came out and told fans they could kiss his gluteus maximus if they had a problem with the league being on strike. But more recently what's upset me happened during the Tour de France. Now a lot of sports have unwritten rules, or code of ethics. For example hockey has a code of honor that dictates when it's okay to start a fight and when it's not. In cycling there is an unwritten rule about not wearing the Yellow Jersey, which goes to the overall leader of a race, when it was obtained due to a crash. In one of the final turns of Tuesday's fourth stage, overall classification leader Dave Zabriskie became involved in a crash, which allowed Lance Armstrong to become the overall leader. Later that day during review of the Race, Team Discovery Channel, for which Lance is riding this year, noticed that had there not been a crash, it was actually to close to tell if he would have been able to make up the :02 deficit, to get the yellow jersey. So prior to the start of the fifth stage Lance made it known out of respect for Zabriskie and the situation surrounding the crash, he was not going to ride that stage wearing the Yellow Jersey. Once again people who run sports, but don't get sports, would not allow this homage to occur. They forced Lance to change his mind and wear the Yellow Jersey. For all the sports can mean on the field, it's really too bad that people off the field don't get it. However, it is good to see that in this day of the spoiled, prima donna athlete (re: Jeremy Roenick, Terrell Owens, 95% of all NBA-ers), that some athletes still get it. Trackbacks
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