Physical Intelligence - Day 54

With the score at 1-1 at the end of the second period, I decided that I should complete my log first and then get back to the game.  Yet why is it important that the Ottawa Senators should be the one's I want to win.  The easy answer is that I am supporting the Canadian team, but there is a bunch of Canadian's playing on the Pittsburgh Penguins team and one of them will eventually be counted as one of the greatest of all time, in the form of Sidney Crosby (or Sid the Kid). 

There is actually no real reason for me to pull for any National Ice Hockey team because every single one is based on hockey stars that originated in Canada.  It is also curious how I can combine gym with my soccer team but not with a single Stanley Cup playoff game.  In the end as far as Ice Hockey is concerned, it is only the result that matters.  I know this because I remember in 1985 when I was walking past Wimbledon on the day of the Men's Final, I saw people line up outside that were not ticket holders, curious I asked them what the lineup is for and the person said, that on this day they were letting people in for free to wander around the outside courts.

It turned out that we sensed the new German wonder kid, at the time a tender age of 17 called Boris Becker was closing in on a historic victory.   I remember rooting for Becker but also that we did not watch him play, we simply sat down and stared at the changing scoreboard on the stadium.  Then it was clear that Becker was closing in for match point, and I saw people running into the stadium, so naturally I followed.  This is what you get for letting in a bunch of freeloaders, and I knew first I had to fight my way ahead of the running hoards, but also when we got to aisles there will be security people trying to fend us off as well.  I remember before the security people could flush us all out, Becker hitting the winning shot and celebrating his first Wimbledon win.  Unlike watching on television, I got plenty of exercise just to get into position fighting off other freeloaders, simply to see that live.

Unless the game is pivotal, why or how people like me became sports nuts is something not questioned.  What can be questioned is the amount of time I actually spend watching televised sport and then reading about sports in other forms of media, including the Internet.  It is no wonder that the Premier League could sell football rights for 5 Billion.  It is all predicated on millions of people just like me who have turned professional sports into an identity badge or at least an excuse that watching sports is time well wasted.  In all that watching there is no carry over to inspire physical intelligence.  Apart from jumping up and down during moments of exciting action, much of it is doing that dangerous thing - sitting.