Author: Michael Cummings
Date: 14:16:33 12/30/99
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On December 30, 1999 at 13:47:10, Dann Corbit wrote: >On December 30, 1999 at 00:53:43, Michael Cummings wrote: >[snip] >>Then sometimes you must wonder that apart from fun, what is the point of these >>contests. I think humans just like to battle it out and proclaim a winner, >>whether they are the best or not. Which makes all the fun > >Actually, I think a bit of guessing is part of the fun. That's why I think in >the US, the proposed playoff for college football is stupid. Making those kids >play a bunch more games does not really show which team is best anyway. Having >a bunch of separate bowls lets half of the teams end the season as winners. > >Anyway, a 'world champion' racer just ran fastest on that day. In physical >athletics, at least we can measure an exact performance in seconds or inches. >In chess it is far more ethereal who really is best. But it makes for some >interesting discussions. There was some interesting discussion about the mental state of US Sports poeple at the recent Pan Pac Swimming meet in Australia a couple of months ago. The US team had a we are the best, win means everything mentality. Whereas the team that should of won the meet if that loser Michael Klim did not break in the relay has a whole different attitude. It derives from how the kids in the US are treated at school with competitions, everything is about results, it has turned into a result based for rankings system. Also money driven, make the biggest name, and get the most money. Put some of those multi million dollar gridiron players in a Rugby league or Rugby Union matches, and their life would most likely be over at the end of the match. Its funny how our best may get 500,000 US dollors and then go on to hear a gridiron player say they could never play our game cause it looks to tough, and the US player gets 5 million plus a year. The point is players need competition to stroke egos and make money, whether the best win or lose, all that matters is winning and losing. So really any other logic involved goes out the window. The point is we Aussies for the amount of people in our country, compared to the US and most other big sporting nations, rules the world per capita !!!!! 1999 World Champions in Cricket World Cup Champions Rugby League Rubgy Union Womens Netball Womens Hockey Davis Cup Tennis Leading Womens Golf Player - Carrie Web Swimming - Broke most world reconds, mainly Mickael Klim, Ian (thropedo) Thorpe There were others which I cannot recall, to many to list. But this has been a damn fine sporting year, So using my method we Aussie rank number 1 in sporting achievements in the world !!!!!!!!! Aussie, Aussie, Aussie, oi, oi, oi
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