The news has just come  in that the Olympics will go to Rio de Janeiro. This is good, and I’m not saying that because it makes Barack Obama look bad.

I’m tired of this country spending billions of dollars to watch others play sports. Don’t get me wrong. I love sports. I love to play sports. I love to participate…not watch. It’s time for American to get off the couch and get involved.

Play. Coach. Run. Walk. Whatever. As the Nike slogan says, just do it.

Playing in a sporting events is much cheaper than being a spectator. Taking my family to an Eagles game is goint to cost me hundreds of dollars. The cost of signing up my daughter for one season of youth soccer was less then the price of one professional football ticket.  I would much rather coach my daughter and her friends than watch a bunch of steroid enriched, spoiled twenty-somethings in a tax payer funded palace.

Nothing is sadder than to watch an aging fat guy talk about the Eagles like he is personally involved. Your a “fan”. “Fan” is short for “fanatic”. Terrorist are fanatic too. There is something a little creepy about people who get all worked up sports.

CONFESSION: I used to be a fan…back when my whole existance was work and weekends. It seems so pitiful now.

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