Athletes Smathletes

Alas, Football season (American Football that is) is almost over and I shall have to find something else to do with those long Sunday afternoons for seven months. I love football but I have to laugh when commentators refer to the players as athletes. C'mon guys, the only athletes on the field are the wide receivers, tight ends and running backs - and maybe the quarterback unless you're talking about Drew Bledsoe who seems to have forgotten what his legs are for.
You cannot seriously talk about a 280+ pound linebacker who comes off the field after one play and needs to suck on an oxygen mask - and use the word athlete in the same sentence.

It's like one of my other favourite pastimes. Darts. Being English I love the game of darts. I used to go with some mates to Lakeside to watch the world darts championship which incidentally is going on right now back home in Blighty. Again, you can't call that a sport. Half of those guys can barely move they're so big. The only thing they move is one forearm - to throw darts and drink beer. It's not a sport, it's a pasttime. Turns out, one of the competitors at this years competition collapsed and got taken to hospital - all 26 stones of him (that's 364 pounds). Guess he must have tried to stand up. Surprised they even got him in the ambulance.