RE: There Are Times When I Am Ashamed of Some Americans
December 22, 2011 at 10:37 pm
(This post was last modified: December 22, 2011 at 10:42 pm by Oldandeasilyconfused.)
Fuuuck!
Australians are sports mad,to the point that it has been said half-seriously that sport is our national religion. Makes sense;one can engage either activity without engaging the cerebral cortex.
We have a LOT of sports throughout school,but there is no"high school football" watched by anyone other than the parents of players.
Our universities have a few teams of various sports but the concept of "College football/baskeball etc " is unknown here.
Yes, of course we had jocks at my school. Stars on the field, but they tended not to do well scholastically, what with being no-necked-monobrow-knuckle-draggers and all. The odd few managed to secure an apprenticeship.The rest tended to have rewarding careers as factory workers.Today I guess it's a McJob. OK times HAVE changed; today the professional leagues DO recruit straight from highschool.
PS I thought that Forest Gump (IQ of 70) got a college sports scholarship AND graduated was funny satire. Apparently not.
Australians are sports mad,to the point that it has been said half-seriously that sport is our national religion. Makes sense;one can engage either activity without engaging the cerebral cortex.
We have a LOT of sports throughout school,but there is no"high school football" watched by anyone other than the parents of players.
Our universities have a few teams of various sports but the concept of "College football/baskeball etc " is unknown here.
Yes, of course we had jocks at my school. Stars on the field, but they tended not to do well scholastically, what with being no-necked-monobrow-knuckle-draggers and all. The odd few managed to secure an apprenticeship.The rest tended to have rewarding careers as factory workers.Today I guess it's a McJob. OK times HAVE changed; today the professional leagues DO recruit straight from highschool.
PS I thought that Forest Gump (IQ of 70) got a college sports scholarship AND graduated was funny satire. Apparently not.
