I’ve asked this question before. My answer is no.
Cockfighting. Is that news? Well, if it’s illegal, then sure. We could make drive-by shooting an Olympic sport and people would tune in. That’s called spectacle, like seeing a car crash, doesn’t make it necessarily a sport. (Though why aren’t crash-up derbys in the Olympics?)
Can we make football, baseball, cricket, two-man luge ... speaking of ...
One-man luge involves a guy lying on his back on a sled. The sled goes very fast. The track, I assume, does all the real steering. All the guy does is hold on for dear life, and if he makes it to the end, he stops the sled with his feet and pulling up on the sled. That’s all he does.
Where is the athleticism? Does the guy have to pump up in the gym every day for years in order to ... to hold on real well? To learn how to drag his feet? How is this a sport as opposed to a spectacle? Where’s the line? But luge – both one- and two-man, maybe even squeeze a third in there – is in the Olympics. It has been classified as an actual sport. But bowling is not? Bowling takes skill, dammit, more than lying on a fucking sled!
Question to leave you with: If the Pope or any Conservatives or just anyone who doesn’t like LGBT people watch luge, does that make them gay? Let’s think about sports for a while. Maybe an all-gay version of the Olympics?
I’ve got tons of ideas – who do I gotta luge with to get a damn sponsorship deal!
