Sports = Ritualized Warfare
I have come to have really mixed feelings about competitive team sports. My daughter just played host team to the Alberta Provincial Ringette Tournament. This should be a fantastic opportunity to engage in play and wellness and get to know girls with similar interests from around the province and establish some connections. This I am all for and this is why I support my daughter playing Ringette...but this is NOT what I witness. Play is a human need and sports should fulfill this. The purpose of sport should be to create an environment of play based on a completely meaningless and absurd task like putting a ball in a net, the human need isn't fulfilled by putting the ball into the net, its fulfilled by engaging in play...absurdity combined with physicality is play. Why is it do you think that people are so ecstatic when a team they identify with does better at this than another? Why is it that the players happiness really seems to hinge on whether they do...