Pilots and Following Sports - Do You?

IMHO
Sport is something you do, not something you watch.
The first word you learned was MAMA, the second DADA. It's likely the
third word was BALL.
By about age 8 or 10 you should get over playing with a ball.
Jim

JS wrote:
IMHO
Sport is something you do, not something you watch.

My view exactly. If you don't do it, its just entertainment.


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On Aug 21, 11:37 am, ContestID67 wrote:
I don't follow sports and never have short of knowing if the home team
is doing well. Call me a fair weather fan. Many of my friends can
spout which team (pro, college, HS) did what to whom and know all the
players, their stats, etc. I try to put up a good manly face and say
the right things at the right time but basically I could really care
less. I realize that I am in the minority.

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!

- John "No Sports" DeRosa

Does the OLC qualify as a "Sport"? If not, then no.
UF

On 8/21/07 12:37 PM, in article
, "ContestID67"
wrote:

I don't follow sports and never have short of knowing if the home team
is doing well. Call me a fair weather fan. Many of my friends can
spout which team (pro, college, HS) did what to whom and know all the
players, their stats, etc. I try to put up a good manly face and say
the right things at the right time but basically I could really care
less. I realize that I am in the minority.

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!

- John "No Sports" DeRosa


No, I don't follow any sports.

Like Avery Brundage, I think anyone who gets paid to play cannot be
participating in a real sport.

And to call some overpaid moron who can hit a ball, or throw a ball, or kick
a ball, a sports "hero" is an insult to the fine men and women in the
military who each have a million times the heroism of Barry Bonds, or
what-his-name Vick, or Pete Rose, or even someone who hasn't disgraced
themselves at their little games.

The I feel better now. Let's go flying.

Bullwinkle

Wow, are we stuck up or what!

But I totally agree. I can hardly watch a ball "sport", although I
admit an occasional Major League baseball game is fun to watch for
real (but only if someone else pays for the (good) tickets).... And I
did enjoy a pickup game of touch or flag football, or kicking a soccer
ball, or hitting a softball - I just didn't take it very seriously.

I do find that the Tour de France is fascinating to follow - as is the
America's cup (but not every minute of every race, for god's sake!).

Then again, I have raced both bicycles and sailboats (at very low
levels), so the connection is there.

As has been mentioned, for me it's all about doing it, not watching
other people get paid to do it.

Oddly enough, for the same reason, I rarely go to airshows anymore -
if the weather is good enough for an airshow, it's good enough to fly
my glider or the towplane!

66
Hoping for a 300k day in Illinois tomorrow...

You mean there's another sport to follow besides soaring?

Jack Womack

Well...I'll state the obvious;
'man against the elements' sports like soaring, cycling, sailing, appeal to
individualists...not team players.
Every pilot I bump into at the airport seems to have his unique 'take' on
the world....which is just as it should be, but this makes me wonder...
organizing a soaring competition must be like trying to herd cats!
Jim

"Jack" wrote in message
oups.com...
You mean there's another sport to follow besides soaring?

Jack Womack

What a heap of pompous, asinine, pretentious, self-indulgent
drivel!

I've been gliding for nearly 35 years, have a UK 750km
diploma, can manage the odd 500km on a good day; I'm
reasonably well educated with a couple of University
degrees, I read extensively from Bill Bryson to Gabriel
Garcia Marquez, I run my own business with enough success
to own and operate my glider, house, cars, dogs etc
...

... and I watch sports (!!); F1, Red Bull airshows,
motor rallies, sailing, tour de France and - mercy
me - even football (the beautiful game, rather than
the stop-start American version). And before you ask
- yes, I AM married, and happily so, too!

Relax guys - there's more to life than gliding!

Kind regards
NM


At 02:30 22 August 2007, Bullwinkle wrote:
On 8/21/07 12:37 PM, in article
. com,
'ContestID67'
wrote:

I don't follow sports and never have short of knowing
if the home team
is doing well. Call me a fair weather fan. Many
of my friends can
spout which team (pro, college, HS) did what to whom
and know all the
players, their stats, etc. I try to put up a good
manly face and say
the right things at the right time but basically I
could really care
less. I realize that I am in the minority.

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!

- John 'No Sports' DeRosa


No, I don't follow any sports.

Like Avery Brundage, I think anyone who gets paid to
play cannot be
participating in a real sport.

And to call some overpaid moron who can hit a ball,
or throw a ball, or kick
a ball, a sports 'hero' is an insult to the fine men
and women in the
military who each have a million times the heroism
of Barry Bonds, or
what-his-name Vick, or Pete Rose, or even someone who
hasn't disgraced
themselves at their little games.

The I feel better now. Let's go flying.

Bullwinkle

No sports here - not for any snobby reasons. Just don't care. NM - my
other interests just don't happen to lean toward spectator activities.
Has anyone considered that most gliding occurs on weekends (in the US,
anyway) - as do many "normal" sports? (not that we're not intelligent
individualists..)

Cheers,
Tim
1FL

John-
I think you have hit something here! I haven't watched TV since I
discovered model airplanes at age 13. Can bearly tell you the names
of my home teams. The only sport I kinda follow/play is tennis which
I learned when I was about 13. I only know what's "hot" by scanning
the magazine covers at the grocery store check out stand.

There are other sports which share this characteristic.

I don't want to live a virtual life, I want to directly experience the
thrill of success and the agony of defeat. That's why I soar, sail,
fish, hike and look for unusual projects I've never done before.

Finally note when my next door TV addled neighbors need a lightbulb
changed, guess who they call for advice?


LT








On Aug 21, 1:37 pm, ContestID67 wrote:
I don't follow sports and never have short of knowing if the home team
is doing well. Call me a fair weather fan. Many of my friends can
spout which team (pro, college, HS) did what to whom and know all the
players, their stats, etc. I try to put up a good manly face and say
the right things at the right time but basically I could really care
less. I realize that I am in the minority.

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!

- John "No Sports" DeRosa