"Hit em hard", "Give em Hell". These were some of the slogans we would shout out cheering our college football team. Yesterday, I went to a hockey game. I noticed the same there. People were cheering when our team player would hit an opponent. People also cheered for a fight. I have to admit, I was one of them. Why do we like to see people get hurt?
Football and Ice Hockey are very popular sports in America and the roughest. I don't understand why it gives us so much pleasure when someone beats the crap out of someone else. And then we are praying when the player doesn't get up. Some get seriously injured and never recover. On the other hand, sports like baseball, soccer and basketball are just as popular and require no hitting. Then why ask for violence in sports. It just doesn't make sense.
Bottom Line: Do we really need to see someone die before we realize that violence in sports is not necessary?
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Indeed, how many times have you cranked your neck around to look at a catastrophic car accident? Probably about as many times as I have. As insidious as it seems I think it is in our nature, because we are more "animal" than we like to think and perhaps less "human" than we would like to think. (And, I mean that most affectionately.) As an avid ski person, I love watching the Olympic games and love watching the successes and the failures, and the crashes. True, we like our share of blood in sports, movies, car wrecks (as long as it's not happening to our sweet necks)and yes there is a "collective sigh" when the person involved survives, gets back up, gets rescued, walks away from the car crash, smiles after a serious roll on the slopes. (ok, maybe not "smiles")Our demand for blood in sports as a human race is a wee bit schizophrenic, especially if we are waving our fists and yelling "yah...bash his brains out" and then in the very same sentence with just as much fuel praying "oh God....please please make him ok." (And I mean that most affectionately)
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