Sporting activities are overrated

From Football, soccer in some culture to basketball, baseball, hockey, golf, tennis and the loads of many more sporting activities that many of us partake in as a means of livelihood, for pleasure, leisure and the many other reasons we have for practising or following a particular sport, i dare say that the hype associated with these sports is too much, all of them are overrated. 

What does any of these sporting activity do for us?, yes us, who for no good reason rush to the stadiums and buy season long tickets of our favourite team, go to their games, get a rush when they win and a high blood pressure when they loss, what does it do for us? What do we gain? Absolutely nothing than a feeling of belonging that can be said to be the same feeling a young boy gets after his first smoke. And what does it do for them, yes them, the machos who could not get into school by the power of their brain but takes the shortest cut to fame, as the world pours it at their feet like a scene from ‘Spartacus’, them who could have just settled for 30 minutes in the gym daily and take up a job working for a construction company and use that energy, the one they so overzealously waste (for good money though) to build low income houses for third world nations, one issue that is underrated.

Much as we all enjoy these activities, either as a sports-person or just as an onlooker, the truth remains that they do not play an important role in the life of the majority of the populace other than that one moment rush that it gives and satisfy the win or loss diatribe that our whole human race seems to be a sucker for.

Without trying to be extra critical about the issue, sporting activities are good, they are a form of release and they add to us in some way (that i cannot explain now) not in the way that reading a good book or having a sound sleep does, they are a simple game of logic, somebody wins, someone else losses and we know this from the get go and it bothers me, that even while we know this, sporting activities are rated highly, much more above some more important human endeavours like farming, teaching and even healthcare while know we might not survive for long without these other activities.

Stop the overrating now! By the way, who do you think will win the Premiership? Legoooo Arsenal!