Sports' Guilty Pleasures
I'm not sure what exactly gave me this idea, but the other day I started to think about my sports-related guilty pleasures. I'm talking about all the things in sports that we're really not supposed to like (for reasons like sportsmanship, personal saftey, and "doing what's good for the game"). So here's a preliminary list of the things in sports that I enjoy, when I'm really not supposed to:
* Any premeditated endzone celebration
* Injured NBA players who wear gaudy suits while sitting on the bench
* Rickey Henderson
* College mascot costumes
* Allen Iverson's
fashion accessories
* Bill Walton's exaggerations
* ESPN's
Playmakers
* Any halftime event involving dogs
* The Wave
* College football teams that run up the score
* When the "halo rule" is violated on a punt return
* Gymnasts and ice skaters who fall during their routines
* Ray Lewis
* The songs and chants at European soccer matches
* Bench-clearing brawls
* Basketball refs who make exaggerated gesticulations whenever they call a foul
* Rushing the field and
tearing down the goalposts