Fowl Ball

[janice6]

On 12/6/2022 at 6:50 PM, Maser said:

 

The problem I have with watching spectator sports is they are sports that I can literally play myself.  I can go outside and play baseball, basketball, football, soccer, etc.  If I'm gonna watch something, I wanna watch something that I know I couldn't do.  Like when I was younger and used to watch pro-wrestling.  I always knew it was staged, but also knew it was real in that people were really doing the stunts and really getting hurt.  I knew I couldn't do those stunts, so therefore I watched people who could.  The modern generation is just as bad with watching others on the net play video games when they themselves can play the games themselves.  I admit I do that as well, but mainly to see people's reactions to games I've already played.  Such as someone who plays Silent Hill 2 for the first time and gets to the part where James walks in on Pyramid Head raping the mannequins.  

So yeah, I just don't get it.  And yeah, I do understand there's folks who are old or physically disabled and can't play the sports themselves anymore, but I'm not talking about them.  I'm talking about folks who are physically abled to play the sports themselves. 

As a kid I went to a couple of pro-wrestling bouts at the local armory.  These were the beginners in the "sport".  There were plenty of injuries and much blood in those events.  I guess the wrestlers hadn't perfected their rehersals prior to the bout.