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From: RickyBobby on 30 Jun 2010 17:47
It seems that the head of Nigeria did not like the way his team played in
the FIFA World Cup 2010 tourney so he suspended his own team from
international competition for two years. This sounds rather like a classic
example of cutting off one's own nose in order to spite one's own face. If
they do not play in international competition how are they supposed to get
any better results?

I figure that there are really two parts of the world. There is the USA
which includes all of Canada and northern Mexico and then there is the world
which is much bigger and has many more people. And I fully comprehend that
five or six billion people cannot all be wrong.

But what piques my interest is how much politics gets involved in sport,
especially in FIFA football and Formula One.

In the good ole USA sport is sport and politics is politics. They do not
comingle. But in the rest of the world they seem to go along like hand in
glove. Funny thing, that.

What is up with you folks mixing politics with sport? One is deadly serious
and the other is just for some good-natured fun.

In Russia they threatened to fire the recreation minister because their
teams did not show well enough in the Winter Olympics.

In France they are calling for a national inquiry into the rebellion of
their football club during the midst of the FIFA World Cup.

To a right-thinking American this all seems extremely silly. It is like the
Monty Python skit about the Minister of Silly Walks.

It is notable how everybody in the whole world wants to come to America and
live the good life but nobody in America wants to go anywheres else.

Our way of doing sports is every bit as superior as our way of doing
everything else.

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