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From: Catrike Ryder <Soloman@old.bikers.org>
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On Thu, 20 Mar 2025 09:37:40 +0700, John B. <slocombjb@gmail.com>
wrote:

>On Wed, 19 Mar 2025 11:36:03 -0700, Jeff Liebermann <jeffl@cruzio.com>
>wrote:
>
>>On Wed, 19 Mar 2025 09:15:20 -0400, Catrike Ryder
>><Soloman@old.bikers.org> wrote:
>>
>>>I never understood why some people like to watch people they don't
>>>know play with their balls.... or ride their bicycles. 
>>
>>Sports are battle simulations much like the gladiatorial contests of
>>ancient Rome.  The only difference is that the participants of today's
>>sports contests are more likely to survive.  Bicycle races are similar
>>except the participants sometimes engage in limited combat.
>><https://www.google.com/search?q=bicycle%20jousting&udm=2>
>
>I think you over simplify. I well remember tree climbing contests when
>I was in grade school and the girls had rope skipping contests. 
>And the Olympic "games" that dated back to something like 770 BCE were
>initially a religious affair.
>
>I believe it is more accurate to say that mankind has an inborn desire
>to be first. In whatever activity, not solely war.

Competition is a wonderful thing. What I don't understand is the
desire to watch others compete. Even if I was interested in watching
such things, crammed into a stadium would not be my choice in how to
do it. 

I chronicled recently my experience with season tickets to Wisconsin
football games, but I've had more recent experiences. My wife was an
activities director at assisted living homes and she regularly asked
me to help with taking her residents to Tampa Bay Rays baseball games.
I should point out that one of my driving forces is to see that she
gets *almost* everything she wants. Yes, I am proudly and irreversibly
P*ss* whipped.

Good lord, she also had me take several of her ladies out on the
gambling boat. Wheelchairs or walkers, every one. I think there were
five of them. 

--
C'est bon
Soloman