The World of Sports

Ah. The world of sports.

It is a fascinating world. There is all sorts of fun to be found in sports. You can go outside, play a sport, and exercise. You can watch a game on your television. You can read the newspaper, articles, or twitter about sports. You can lay a simulated sports game on a gaming console. There are many opportunities that can be imagined with sports.

So, what really makes sports so great?

Is it the feeling of the sports atmosphere? Is it the feel of a football or basketball in your hands, or a soccer ball by your feet? Is it the lust of football on a Sunday afternoon, or baseball on a summer evening? Is it the fun of going to watch your favorite team play or favorite player shine? Is it the excitement of fantasy sporting games? Wait, or is it the $73.5 billion revenue the sports industry is projected to make in 2019?

Yes, sports are a major factor in our everyday lives. With a crazy profit sports are making, almost as much as Bill Gates's net worth, sports are one of our favorite entertainment satisfactions.

Nothing compares to going to a sports game and having that atmosphere of home away from home. In case you don't know what this feels like, go to Fenway Park, Wrigley Field, Madison Square Garden, Augusta National Golf Club, Indianapolis Motor Speedway, Daytona Beach, Lambeau Field, the Superdome, Wimbledon, Wembley Stadium, Camp Not, Churchill Downs, TD Garden, and so on. Sporting venues are projected to make over $20 billion dollars of revenue in 2019, showing their unbelievable effect on the people.

So, yet again, what is so great about sports?

Try the competition. Everybody loves a good competition, a good fight, Mano a mano. Competition is in our history, it's in our blood, it's in our everyday life.

Let's take a history lesson, shall we? Back in the day long long ago, men fought in colosseums over who was the greatest gladiator. In case you forgot, just ask Russell Crowe. Also, war was very big. I will call you out and you will call me out and we will get mad at each other cause I want your land and you want mine, so let's fight! Ah, the feeling of sword slashing, of blood spilling, of victory wailing. All good things.

Then, at the end of the day, someone wins. Then everything is over, right? Wrong. The losers want revenge, the winners want more, and those outside want inside. Thus, we get competition and lust for victory.

Thank you teacher.

Anyway, then we got the invention of sport. People asked the important question: What if we put one man against another? In a fight, or a battle, for entertainment? Then, wallah! We have sports.

We had throwing pebbles and board games and wrestling in Egypt (3000-2000 B.C.), we had racing and boxing and hockey and the Olympics in Greece (8th-6th centuries B.C.), we had gladiator fights in Rome (1st century B.C.), we had sumo wrestling in Japan (23 B.C.), we had chess in India (6th century), we had soccer evolving in England (9th century), we had tennis in France (14th century) and curling in Scotland (16th century), we had baseball, football, and basketball in the United States of America (19th century-). So, sports have taken their place in history.

Everybody had a feel of a sport they wanted to play. Globally, soccer became the king of sports. With over four billion fans worldwide, soccer takes centerstage over everything else. However, football brought in the most money with the NFL making $13 billion a couple of years ago. Ten sports teams make north of $3 billion in revenue, with the Dallas Cowboys leading the way at $4.2 billion.

Sports are a money Goliath. They take in so much money it is unbelievable.

Can you believe it? Well yes I can Joe Costiglione, as he famously asked the Boston fans after the Red Sox won the World Series in 2004 after an eight-six year championship drought.

Sports also bring us entertainment in the form of amazing stories. We love the passion and love, togetherness and company, fulfillment and pleasure that sports bring. Do you believe in miracles?, as Al Michaels once famously called during the 1980 Olympics when the heavyweight the Soviet Union hockey team lost in the final seconds to the underdog USA hockey team in the semi-finals for the gold medal.

Sports stories are such feel-good moments for people. Who can forget the story of The Blind Side, where a homeless boy was taken in by a family and grew up to become a NFL player; or the moment when Jackie Robinson broke the color barrier in sports as the first African-American to play professional sports, or when Jesse Owens silenced Hitler at the 1936 Summer Olympics to win four gold medals when Hitler only wanted his own race to win. Yes, these moments in sports ignite us to feel good inside and compel us to want more.

Sports are so great in the feelings that they give us. We love the drive sports give us. We love the way it makes us feel to watch our favorite team or player win. We love to come together for something meaningful.

So, in the end, why do we love sports so much? Well, I guess it is just cause they love us. People drive sports and sports drive people. We can never get too much of sports. Never.

Sports are a passion, sports are a friend, sports are a connection, sports are a life. Sports are here, then, now, and forever.

Sports are here to stay. So go outside and get involved, or sit back, relax, and enjoy the show.

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