I can’t seem to enjoy watching sports anymore. Well, occasionally there will be a team that I’ll like for a season, but even then, it’s pretty minmal.
I think part of the problem is that I think so many of the players are jerks. Which is funny because I’m really not moralistic when I get up close to people. But just about when I start to like the Nets because of Jason Kidd, I hear that he’s been busted for domestic violence, and I can’t help but think “What the hell do I care if this idiot wins or loses?”…and so on.
I hadn’t really thought about it before, but that is one of the good things about being a fan of horse racing. The horses never get busted for drugs (sometimes the trainers do, and sometimes jockeys do, but the horse never does). Horses don’t cheat on their wives, ( after they retire some are known for becoming quite the stud, but not while they are racing). Horses don’t get caught fixing races, or gambling on themselves (some owners do though). And I have never heard a horse complain about his salary or his fellow racers ( jockeys, trainers and owners all do enough of that).
If we could just get the humans out of racing, it would be the perfect sport.
Pick a game with a short season (I recommend college or NFL football), develop a vested interest in a particular team or conference, and go from there.
Try hockey. Way fewer thugs because the money and prestige isn’t there. Of course, there are still meat-heads like Todd Bertuzzi, but the game is currently evolving in such a way to make a lot of the goons obsolete.
I’ll second this. There isn’t a whole lot of jackassery in hockey. There’s Todd Bertuzzi, Sean Avery, Mike Modano from time to time, and the Toronto Maple Leafs (God help me I always want to type “leaves”), and that’s pretty much it. The game has opened up quite a bit. Teams like Buffalo and Detroit are fast moving, skilled, and durn entertaining to watch.
