sports galore

it's been a high volume playoff sports season for a couple of months now and as it comes to it's conclusion, i ponder the relative addiction that so many have to watching others play physical games and wonder why so few actually play... not that everyone is so athletic, but almost everyone can run around and learn some skills to achieve some measure of proficiency in some, if not many sports... but the vast majority of people would rather pay huge amounts to a few rather spoiled, minimally educated, and quite elite athletes who, in recent years, seem to focus on egocentric individual performances and money rather than good team efforts, fan concern, and good sportsmanship... so i turn on some amateur sports to remember a bit of what sports is about, a bit because so many amateur sports are not team sports, but still, at least some (we can hope most) amateurs are striving for best team performance and not just money and ego first... of course if you know me at all, then you know that i view most everything from a rather different perspective... and then, as i watched girls gymnastics, i started wondering if girls gymnastics was developed by men who wanted to watch young girls flex their gluteus maximus muscles while secretly hoping for some virgin camel toes and mumblers (we won't ponder why men want to coach the sport then, oh come on now)...

and now for something completely different...

there's always ncis

seems that no matter how many times i've seen them, i will choose ncis reruns over most other background tv every evening when i actually turn on the tv... though the final three on idol might catch my eye for a moment... the one i picked way back when is still there, though she might not be old enough to reach the top spot, she's made and i am satisfied, knowing the business the business gives kids and what the show is looking for... but it is the characters on ncis that draw me in because the core theme is they care about each other so much that they would die for each other...

like really seriously close family, or so it seems...

it appeals to that deep part of me that longs for such bonds... imagining they are real is as close as i get these days... how's that for something deep and heavy and meaningful and personal out of background tv? :)