The Curse of the DaveBuncho
Posted by: David Bunch
When it comes to sports, I must say that college sports are my favorite. With high school sports you don't quite have the skill level there to make the game interesting for anyone other than the parents of the players and the students of the school in question, and with professional sports you primarily get whiny, overpaid brats who think they should look and act like ex-convicts (this is probably because many of them are). But college sports? Ah, there's where true sportsmanship can be seen. You have athletes who are developed physically and can usually perform at high levels, plus the school pride that comes into the mix, and to top it all off, no one is paid to play. Sure, that last part is a little naive and simplistic I know, but theoretically the athlete is simply competing for the love the game and for the thrill of the competition. Oh, and there's the hope of getting discovered by pro scouts. It all adds up to the most thrilling of all the sports levels.
This could easily lead me into a diatribe on LSU Tiger athletics since I am, after all, an LSU Tiger. And in a way, I guess it will.
If I've narrowed my interest in sports to college athletics, then it is fair to say that my interests have been, heretofore, narrowed even further to the sport of basketball. I've played since I could walk and for the vast part of my 28 year life was fairly convinced that it was the only sport worth devoting any amount of time to.
Until Farrah. Guess what sport she likes? Mmmmm? That's right, all of them, but especially baseball! So, this year, after several years of wearing me down, she enticed me into attending an LSU Baseball game. As soon as I stepped into Alex Box and saw the purple and gold warming up in right field, I was hooked. Now here's a sport. It's considered the National pastime, it has all kinds of neat statistics, and there's just something vaguely reassuring about sitting in the stands and hearing the crowd, smelling the popcorn, and watching the genius and strategy of getting guys to swing a bat at a 70 plus mph baseball, having them round three bases, and hopefully scoring on the fourth. I now consider myself a Tiger Baseball fan.
And would you believe it? They are having a sub par year. Never mind all of those championships and near championships when we had the Skipper and I could have been an avid fan of a winning team that had national respect and could have potentially caught baseballs that were pieces of history and told stories about how I was there when it happened (run on sentence used for emphasis). Ohhhh no. I have to become a fan when the team is achieving all sorts of unwanted "firsts". Like losing more back to back SEC games at home than in how ever many years, etc. In the words of Napoleon Dynamite, "gaaaaaaahhhh....what an idiot".
Godspeed,
dB
When it comes to sports, I must say that college sports are my favorite. With high school sports you don't quite have the skill level there to make the game interesting for anyone other than the parents of the players and the students of the school in question, and with professional sports you primarily get whiny, overpaid brats who think they should look and act like ex-convicts (this is probably because many of them are). But college sports? Ah, there's where true sportsmanship can be seen. You have athletes who are developed physically and can usually perform at high levels, plus the school pride that comes into the mix, and to top it all off, no one is paid to play. Sure, that last part is a little naive and simplistic I know, but theoretically the athlete is simply competing for the love the game and for the thrill of the competition. Oh, and there's the hope of getting discovered by pro scouts. It all adds up to the most thrilling of all the sports levels.
This could easily lead me into a diatribe on LSU Tiger athletics since I am, after all, an LSU Tiger. And in a way, I guess it will.
If I've narrowed my interest in sports to college athletics, then it is fair to say that my interests have been, heretofore, narrowed even further to the sport of basketball. I've played since I could walk and for the vast part of my 28 year life was fairly convinced that it was the only sport worth devoting any amount of time to.
Until Farrah. Guess what sport she likes? Mmmmm? That's right, all of them, but especially baseball! So, this year, after several years of wearing me down, she enticed me into attending an LSU Baseball game. As soon as I stepped into Alex Box and saw the purple and gold warming up in right field, I was hooked. Now here's a sport. It's considered the National pastime, it has all kinds of neat statistics, and there's just something vaguely reassuring about sitting in the stands and hearing the crowd, smelling the popcorn, and watching the genius and strategy of getting guys to swing a bat at a 70 plus mph baseball, having them round three bases, and hopefully scoring on the fourth. I now consider myself a Tiger Baseball fan.
And would you believe it? They are having a sub par year. Never mind all of those championships and near championships when we had the Skipper and I could have been an avid fan of a winning team that had national respect and could have potentially caught baseballs that were pieces of history and told stories about how I was there when it happened (run on sentence used for emphasis). Ohhhh no. I have to become a fan when the team is achieving all sorts of unwanted "firsts". Like losing more back to back SEC games at home than in how ever many years, etc. In the words of Napoleon Dynamite, "gaaaaaaahhhh....what an idiot".
Godspeed,
dB
