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How is this relevant?

Cars racing each other at high speeds? People arriving to watch cars race at high speed. People spending money to watch other people race cars at high speed? People spending money on popcorn and beers while watching other people race cars at high speeds? Then there is the car crashes. Certainly they must be coming for the crashes. Live and in high definition color (except if you are color blind) rather than having Hollywood film a pretend car crash. That I can pay money to watch. Its fun to see flames and screams and hear the noise of grinding metal and rubber and pavement. Ideally a man on fire taking off - gives a whole new meaning to 'hit the ground running'. Otherwise its stupid to watch cars go round and round on a track like a big toy race. What about watching a bunch of people swimming? Why would you watch that? That too swimming in the same tank. Not even going on a swim on a raging river. At least the scenery would change no? Some people would get injured and drown or some would just hit a tree and get lost. That would add variety is it not? Then there is this most insane of sports that people actually pay to watch. Golf. How do you play it let alone watch it? Once you tee off you do not even know where your ball went - it goes so fast. Its almost invisible. It can be a perfect case of the 'emperor has no clothes' scenario. Just swing it and then show up next to the hole and drop your ball near it from your pocket. There are people that also follow the people that hit the ball and clap when they see the ball. How is this relevant? Boxing - why are two perfectly fit people with no animosity borne out of anything hitting each other till they bleed? I guess its not relevant (to ask) but to simply watch the utter destruction of two people after going at it for a while. I could add some unexpected surprises to this insane activity to make it more interesting. e.g. let out a rabbit in the ring. Or throw a burning rag at one of the contestant. That will teach them to be more alert and nimble. Another bizzare activity is watching a nationally televised poker game. There are people wearing variety of sunglasses sitting at a brightly lit table. And playing cards. And then there are people that will subscribe to this and watch it. Here too we can introduce drama with a sudden fire alarm going off or a quake that shakes these people with glasses so that there glasses come off. Then squirt them with tabasco. Then watch them play. No creativity I tell you in today's sport.

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  1. I agree on the watching part..at least when you are playing it you might get a bit of fresh air and exercise..

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