Live Sport

Now I appreciate that this isn't a very manly thing to say, but live sport?  What's all that about?

Now don't get me wrong, I enjoy playing sport - on the whole I'm rubbish, but I enjoy it.  Watching sport (well some sports) on the television is normally a satisfying way of wasting an hour or so, but sport, live, in a stadium - nope, just don't get it.

In the last couple of weeks I've been to both athletics and rugby and in both instances I've just come out a bit confused. If you're near enough to see anything up close, then you can't see what's happening anywhere else so have no real idea what's going on. If you're far enough away to see the entire event, then you're probably so far away that you may as well be looking at a formicary.

Don't get it.

It's almost like the sport is incidental and really the event is just an excuse to get drunk and holler noise at strangers as part of a mindless herd.  Which is nothing like a live music gig...