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And take some drugs!
How did we as a nation, as a world for that matter start to take a game such as basketball or football so damn seriously? If our team loses, we all have to start cursing our players or coaches or the refs or someone beacause of it. When did this all become so prevalent?
I remember a film in the 70's that at the time seemed so farfetched that it seemed sureal and strictly fictional. In the film Rollerball, the corporate world state of some futuristic society controls the bloodlust of its populace through the brutal, sporting violence of a game. Have we become this??? Has fiction become no fiction?
Howard Cosell once said, "Sports is a microcosm of life." This is not true now. Sports is larger than life and we are spiralling out of control and heading for a crash, all sponsered by Miller Brewing Co.
The talking heads all point to the chasm between fans and pro athletes as the root of the prpblem . That's not the problem. It's a deterioration of civilized thought, decorum and behavior, and it's played out daily in more than just sporting arenas. Just watch people driving down the highways for instance.
I don't know if you've noticed, but there's a lot of anger out there, and it is getting scarrier and scarrier. You have people cutting each other off on the highway and parents fighting each other at youth soccer, baseball, and hockey games. Now this mess in Detroit.
And while sports fans today aren't necessarily more angry than they were years ago, the means of belligerence (talk radio and the Internet) have become more pervasive.
Do we need beefed-up security at arenas? Do we need to restrict alcohol sales at games? Do we need to educate athletes on how to respond to fan abuse? Perhaps.
But what we really need is a massive re-socialization. What we need is to reassess a culture that props up athletic feats excessively. What we need is to redirect our energies to healthier pursuits. We need to not take freaking sports so damn seriously....it is s game, people....we must chill.
Now go watch Sponge Bob the Movie and have some fun.
And take some drugs!
They already do...through the freaking PRICE!!!Do we need to restrict alcohol sales at games?
If beersh were a reasonable $2.50 instead of $Second mortgage, I'd have gone Piston fan a LONG time ago...
I'm way ahead of you.
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