It is amazing the more you use something like the random Wikipedia tool, you really begin realise just how much information that sports takes up on the internet, and in the minds of the general population. There are hundreds of different major sports, each with different codes, leagues, teams, players, coaches. And this information changes on a yearly basis. There are new statistics recorded every week, new dramas around events both on and off the field.
Keeping this much information out there for people to carry around in their heads on a weekly basis, or to immerse themselves in is a great way from them to distract themselves from the rest of their lives. I saw that the prime minister of this country was on the television yesterday at the half time of the football, saying that in “In these tough economic times football is one of the things that brings the community and a nation together.”
While I don’t mind the occasional game, and do follow a team, I do see that at one level sports is nothing more than coliseum games put on to keep the peasants from realising just how dire their circumstances are and revolting in the streets.
Next time you are hunting for information out there, just take notice of how often sports results, news or stats appear while you try and find the information you are after, or are randomly surfing about