The absurdity
 

Of sports, of politics, of humanity.

I was standing over the urinal at the local pub, and having passed the picture on the left (maybe it will be the one above) on a wall on my way in and had the rather unexceptional revelation of the ridiculousness of partisanship.
- Yes, after a few beers - the source of all wisdom.

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Maybe this will make it clearer for you.

The absurdity that he could be that good and be in that kind of shape?

He was bigger than his sport.

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You should have seen the other guys...

I can understand people rooting for their schools sports teams, but professional teams, I don't really understand. Just because you happen to live in a particular place, your some how part of.....what?

+1

He was too big for his sport . .. jersey?

You just grow up around it. The Bears were on TV every Sunday for as long as I can remember. I grew to like them. Jordan was on the Bulls when I was a young, impressionable kid. That one is self explanatory. I am a pretty diehard bears fan, but only a casual Bulls fan at this point. I follow players much more so than teams. In, basketball I enjoy watching Kobe play. By default I root for the lakers. If he would up on the Jazz, I would become a Jazz fan and the lakers would slip into oblivion.

There ya go.
And then we can take it up a notch...

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And then we have....

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Is that a can of Skoal by his knee?
Jim

You are upset that the Red Sox sold Babe Ruth to the Yankees NINETY YEARS AGO?

You are right, that is Absurd.

Wool uniforms seem pretty absurd.

damn, i want my "click" back..

I still haven't a clue what this is about.

i want to see a picture of babe ruth with a pancake on his head.
mmmmm.....pancakes.

Love the games, typically not the leagues/institutionalization of them.

The age of free agency has really screwed things up. There's little (if any) team loyalty anymore which makes it increasingly hard to root for whatever scabs are filling a particular uniform this year.

It's an opiate for the masses - little more. But it is fun to "get dumb" and enjoy once in a while in a provincial sort of way.

Back in the days of ancient Greece, I'm sure it meant a lot more to see one city-state's athletes competing against a rival's (hence the original olympic games, etc.) Nowadays that concept has been contorted by modern business to such a point as to be virtually meaningless. Hell, even international competition (including the Olympics) is starting to "go scab" by allowing countries to offer citizenship to "free agent" athletes. A lot of countries even offer athletes nice incentives to become citizens of that country (even though they might never have set foot in it) just to play for them in the games.

Sport as we know it is due for a big crash soon from these sorts of corrosive elements that destroy the underlying spirit of competitiveness.

Jeff I was trying to figure out why you were up posting before 3am...then I remembered you are back on the east coast.

I do, you aren't missing anything.