Sport!!!

It is interesting what sport does to some people. To some people the need to be out on a Saturday and Sunday living their dreams and running off the week's stresses. To others it means sitting in front of the television watching other people play their dream and basically drinking off the week's stresses

So what is it about sport that makes us want to travel to play or follow your favourite team or sit up half the night waiting for our favourite team to run out onto the field?

It's interesting when you live overseas you will go to unbelievable lengths to watch your favorite team play at the local sports bar but if you were at home you might not even bother.

For many people sport is about being social. It is about joining a team to play something that you love with a bunch of people who share your passion and want to share that passion with you. It is why the aforementioned people will seek out a sports bar to watch their national team play to feel part of a community or part of a country.

For other people it is a challenge. They want to challenge themselves, to get better at something, to see how far they can go. To see how far they can push themselves to succeed. To see if those people that they see on television are any better or any worse than themselves.

At the end of the day (to borrow a phrase often used in sport interviews) it is all about being social, it is all about doing exercise that helps us live a long and healthy life and when it comes to supporting our team, we like to do that because generally we have played the sport ourselves, we know what is going on in the game as we have experienced the emotions that the players are going through on our television screens or the stadium. We may even know some of them personally and we like to see them do well on the big stage.

Sport is great, sport is fun and the benefits are huge.