ContestID67 wrote:

I don't follow sports and never have short of knowing if the home team
is doing well.

Come on, John, you must pay some attention to one little niche in
professional sports.


Oddly I found that most of my pilot friends are in the same boat. I
took an informal poll at our club and at least 90% of those asked
didn't follow sports. Seems very odd. I wonder what the connection
is? Intelligence? ;-)

Next time you are out at the field, take your own informal pole and
report back. We may have the makings here of a article in Psychology
Today!

My dad played for the White Sox for a couple of years before going in
the Navy during WW2, so that's one small corner of pro-sports to which I
have a connection--but I don't pay much attention to the details of
today's competition. Strangely enough, perhaps, Dad also paid relatively
little attention to baseball after he moved on from his years in the
game into a more mundane career.

I tend to believe, as another poster here mentioned, that soaring is
absorbing enough that we don't often feel a need to perform, or to
compete, vicariously.


Jack
KJ