 Mister Micawber wrote: |
| I do not understand why you would need to pass such a judgemental comment about Ten Pin Bowling. How is Ten Pin Bowling lower brow than soccer or gridiron or rugby or any of the many sports resulting in pain and injury? What is a highbrow sport? |
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Not a judgement; just an observation (your own evidence is a case in point). Highbrow sports include cricket, jai alai, and squash.
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G'day MM,
Cricket!!
You must be joking.
Have you seen the way the World Champions play the game?
Brett Lee pretends to deliver a death stroke after a dismissal.
The entire Australian team sledges their opponents and tries to 'break them mentally' in the words of Ricky Ponting.
No Australian players 'walk' if they are out.
The tactics employed by the Australian team are hideous, it is a 'win at all costs' mentatliy.
They are so desperate to win that they are willing to play the last three overs of a World Cup match in the dark just to force a result.
I just can not see that as being highbrow and it has not been so since the days of Don Bradman when ruthlessness and an overwhelming desire to win no matter the tactics used became the norm.
No sport is any more highbrow than any other sport.
A sport may be played in a highbrow manner by highbrow people but the sport itself is beyond the brow.
Stannum