The Difference Between Sports and Dumb Things Rich People Do
I seem to be getting an odd number of comments (mostly with insults accompanying, so they’ve been deleted) about something I said in my anti-Winklevoss post.
Those aren’t jocks (and rowing isn’t a sport).
I seem to have touched a nerve among the 8 people who still don’t have the common sense to just buy a motor. But I’m sorry, rowing is still not a sport. It’s a punishment for being born with a trust fund.
At some point God/Karma/The Universe (take your pick) realized that life was just too good for blue bloods. So He/She/It decided that anyone with born with too much money should spend a portion of their life on a form of manual labor that all but the poorest Vietnamese peasants quit doing 50 years ago.
For something to be a sport, it must meet the following 5 conditions:
- It must be on ESPN or ESPN2.
- It must not be played sitting down.
- Vomiting must not be cause for disqualification or have a euphemism like “a reversal”.
- None of the players use a broom.
- It must not be something that people once did to survive, but has since been replaced by technology (there goes half of the Olympics).
That’s it.
