Have you ever really wondered why we have sports? It seems
almost as a question whose answer does not require the question. But think
about it for a minute, if I would ask you what is your favorite sport? Anything
that is a sport… What is the first thing that comes to your mind. Maybe
American Football, maybe football (Soccer), maybe Golf, or maybe swimming. We
all have a sport that we would consider ‘our’ sport. You can try to deny that
you could careless about sport but I bet you enjoy something like maybe you
like to take walks or you run daily.
But from that, have you ever really wondered why we have
sports or what sport really is?
According to the British dictionary sport is “an activity involving
physical exertion and skill in which an individual or team competes against
another or others for entertainment.” I cannot argue this one bit because I
would agree. We know what sport is but let that linger for a moment…. One more
moment…. One more… why do we have sports?
I know every culture around the world and through history
has had their sport. The Greeks created the Olympics, Native Americans created Across,
America has American football, the rest of the world has proper football known
by Americans as soccer. But why?
According to one article in the Wilson Quarterly, Sport “is
supposed to provide pleasure and excitement for the participants and to take
them for a time out of the regular rhythms of the world in which they live.”
From this understanding, it appears sport has a psychological aspect to it.
Almost a sense of relief from the troubles we deal with regularly. Our lives
are filled with so much stress from work, relationships, to surviving that
there needed to be something to give relief but because we were designed to be
in community with others there had to be something. I would propose that God
gave man Sport. He gave it to us to, in community, to bond and to have a sense
of relief from the troubles our mind focuses on.
What is sport?
How about a gift…..
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