I still remember my first and last football game I saw:
Two bunches of heavily armored guys took some incomprehensibel positions against each other on a field, and just cowered there. After a while one referee blew a whistle, made some gesture, and dropped a colored handkerchief on the lawn. All the armored guys got up and left the field. Then all players, referees and trainers stood in groups together besides the field, and talked to each other. After a while again two groups of armored players entered the field again, ducking like some buffalo herd in defense again. Then another whistle was blown, and all guys got up left the field again.
When finally - and seldom - was some action at all, all I saw was bunch of guys crashing into each other, until a whistle was blown again. And somebody explained over the speakers, a hand touched some knee in a unduly way. And I thought:"Knee? What knee? All I saw was a heap of guys jumping on each other."
While at the field nothing really happend at the same a friend of mine was feverlishy explaining me the rules, which to me felt like german tax legislation, so I surrender trying to understand after three minutes, convinced nobody in the whole world could knew and respect them all. Which to me was clearly the reason, why so many referees and discussisons are needed. And I thought by myself:"Why they don't just let it do by some laywers instead?" - You know, the US american way: Great justice by convincing the jury with true emotions causing lots or fair righteousnes in court - in movies, and TV (where I always ask myself, when I see this, what real life lack they need to compensate with those shows.)
If there haven't been so much booze it had been as pointless and boring as waiting for a train two hours late.
And this all reaches its peak in the superbowl, where it's a competion to litter a stadium with even more garbage than the year before, and is all about to become outrages about a superstar singing the national anthem showing too much sex.
And then I thought:"No! While we already drown in pointless sports crap instead of discussing all the urgent problems we urgently need to solve now they import that boring crap also to Europe!"
Nah. I don't watch sports at all. I either do some myself, or not.
But I don't watch it.
.
