Where do athletes go from here? Training techniques and regimens are at the max. If you are a pro you do workouts that would leave the rest of us in intensive care. The only way to do better is to cheat. Drug therapy, blood transfusions, even antler spray. Athletes the world over look to anything to improve. But when you are at the limit then what? Innovation is gone, there are no surprises anymore. You can bet most "bulked" up athletes have doped or are doping. Is this the meaning of sport?
Concussions are ramping up because of the conditioning of these athletes. When everyone on the field of play are big, fast, and strong the resulting blows to the head are becoming more severe. The game of football (American) is trying to stop some of it by limiting what the defence can do. Whats left is not that exciting. Quarterbacks like Manning, Brady and the like can light up the non existent defences that are employed. It often comes down to who has the ball last, or to a penalty. Most of the defensive head coaches are gone now, replaced by the offensive ones.
This is playing out in all sports, they have to take out the "crushing blows" because of the lawsuits and the injuries to the top stars of the game. They pay these athletes huge amounts of money and cannot afford to have them "knocked out".
But it is us the fan that fuels this on, we all have nothing to talk about, last nights game is what we discuss. They have perfected the roll we play in keeping this as popular as it is. To stop this would leave many totally void of things to talk about. Give us something else to argue about, please, before the first "billion dollar" contract occurs.
My two favorite parts of this post:
ReplyDelete"you do workouts that would leave the rest of us in intensive care"
"To stop this would leave many totally void of things to talk about"
It will take till that first "billion dollar" contract occurs before we do dick all. Even then I wonder. I bet it will sell so many newspapers and recieve so much air time that it will be deemed entertainment (sick).
I often have thought about this. When is the last world record going to be attained. There is a physical cap out to running 100m. I think it is safe to assume that no human could run it in less than 7 seconds. So once Bolt cleans up and sets his final record who is going to beat it. Will they need drugs to beat it. Probably. That or 2 additional artificial legs. Maybe it will come to that. Brining technology into the mix. Instead of drugs let technology advance the times. But still then we will reach a max, and if we don't then it will be completely un interesting to watch. Curious indeed to see where this one goes!