Pilots and Following Sports - Do You?

Does obsessive following of glider contests via the internet count?

Once you "do" any sport like competitive soaring even half seriously,
"watching" other sports loses all interest.

It does make for embarrassing silence when one is expected to
participate in conversation at business lunches.

John Cochrane

IMHO
Sport is something you do, not something you watch.
The first word you learned was MAMA, the second DADA. It's likely the
third word was BALL.
By about age 8 or 10 you should get over playing with a ball.
Jim

On Aug 21, 4:10 pm, BB <john.cochr...@gsb.uchicago.edu> wrote:
> It does make for embarrassing silence when one is expected to
> participate in conversation at business lunches.

My response: "Oh, I don't follow (whatever sport is currently not in
season)..." when asked if I watched the game last night.

-Tom

Wow, are we stuck up or what!

But I totally agree. I can hardly watch a ball "sport", although I
admit an occasional Major League baseball game is fun to watch for
real (but only if someone else pays for the (good) tickets).... And I
did enjoy a pickup game of touch or flag football, or kicking a soccer
ball, or hitting a softball - I just didn't take it very seriously.

I do find that the Tour de France is fascinating to follow - as is the
America's cup (but not every minute of every race, for god's sake!).

Then again, I have raced both bicycles and sailboats (at very low
levels), so the connection is there.

As has been mentioned, for me it's all about doing it, not watching
other people get paid to do it.

Oddly enough, for the same reason, I rarely go to airshows anymore -
if the weather is good enough for an airshow, it's good enough to fly
my glider or the towplane!

66
Hoping for a 300k day in Illinois tomorrow...

You mean there's another sport to follow besides soaring?

Jack Womack

Well...I'll state the obvious;
'man against the elements' sports like soaring, cycling, sailing, appeal to
individualists...not team players.
Every pilot I bump into at the airport seems to have his unique 'take' on
the world....which is just as it should be, but this makes me wonder...
organizing a soaring competition must be like trying to herd cats!
Jim

"Jack" <schredermanm> wrote in message
news:1187752876.676055.266040@x35g2000prf. o...
> You mean there's another sport to follow besides soaring?
>
> Jack Womack
>

No sports here - not for any snobby reasons. Just don't care. NM - my
other interests just don't happen to lean toward spectator activities.
Has anyone considered that most gliding occurs on weekends (in the US,
anyway) - as do many "normal" sports? (not that we're not intelligent
individualists..)

Cheers,
Tim
1FL