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Fri Dec 24, 2004, 09:11pm
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Hey fellas, before you end up with a really bad egg, take a look at American football as it relates to society. The more you distance yourself from reality, the more you allow your youth to be infected by the culture surrounding the game and the longer you ignore the problems associated with the American football culture the worse it will get.
As posted earlier a great sports model to copy would be of one of our games, which is based on our ancient ball games, called ki-o-rahi. Because the ways Maori here do things culturally in society is reflected in the way we play our sports. Sports reflect society, so rather than dishing out screeds of resistant arguments, and going off track in any way you can (Paton!?), it would be far healthier to openly discuss the games problems so you can be closer to finding solutions. This forum is used to help each other with rule interpretations so why not help each other to make the game better too? "Prevention is better than the cure"... as a reminder here is a US report on the situation America is in presently - Sports as an institution is every bit as powerful in this country as corporate America or the Catholic Church. Yet sports are still considered a sidelight, ancillary to our daily experience. It's still too easy to put on those rose-colored glasses, indulge in Grantland Rice images of the Four Horsemen of Notre Dame and Knute Rockne speeches of winning one for the Gipper. It's too easy to get wrapped up in the supposed character-building elements of it, the false narratives of heroes and come-from-behind glory fed us by newspapers and television networks and cable networks in their ceaseless search for easy emotional aphrodisiacs. Time to reasess? time for change? I truly hope so for the generations who follow in your footsteps (let us pray...) and don't forget to keep making those huge profits cause our lawyers (Tamihere and co) will be calling you in about 2 years time for some overdue compensation! [Edited by Taha Maori on Dec 24th, 2004 at 09:36 PM] |
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