13 June 2006
GOAL
Riff Market on Sports
I don't watch the sports, but people don't actually watch sports for the sports anymore do they? Today I talked to a lot of people about the sports. Basically the only reasons to watch them include: (a) slam dunks, (b) finishing moves (and babalities), (c) hole-in-ones, (d) fights with guns, (e) hilarious bloopers, (f) fans getting in fights about the sports, (g) horrific car crashes, (h) Pepsi commercials. Just saying, the running and throwing and kicking shit is the biggest tease going. I understand the need for this boring, teasey sports stuff, and let me be the first person to admit that this is why athletes get paid so much. They really have the hardest, most boring job ever, and I do believe they are fairly compensated. But when I see something like the video above, and I don't show up at work so I can keep watching it on loop for six hours, I wonder why sports haven't given up on the bullshit yet. This World Cup stuff for instance could be really easy: 10 minutes of running around, 10 minutes of kicking shit, 15 minutes of awesome dancing, 15 more minutes of fighting with guns. As for commercial breaks: Every commercial features Ray Charles fighting with guns.
I don't watch the sports, but people don't actually watch sports for the sports anymore do they? Today I talked to a lot of people about the sports. Basically the only reasons to watch them include: (a) slam dunks, (b) finishing moves (and babalities), (c) hole-in-ones, (d) fights with guns, (e) hilarious bloopers, (f) fans getting in fights about the sports, (g) horrific car crashes, (h) Pepsi commercials. Just saying, the running and throwing and kicking shit is the biggest tease going. I understand the need for this boring, teasey sports stuff, and let me be the first person to admit that this is why athletes get paid so much. They really have the hardest, most boring job ever, and I do believe they are fairly compensated. But when I see something like the video above, and I don't show up at work so I can keep watching it on loop for six hours, I wonder why sports haven't given up on the bullshit yet. This World Cup stuff for instance could be really easy: 10 minutes of running around, 10 minutes of kicking shit, 15 minutes of awesome dancing, 15 more minutes of fighting with guns. As for commercial breaks: Every commercial features Ray Charles fighting with guns.
// posted by NBS @ 12:00 PM 
