The Anonymous Widower

An Interesting Take On American Sports

I just found this article entitled US Sports Going The Way Of The Gladiator, on CNN’s web site.

These are the first two paragraphs.

Are American sports fans turning into the citizens of ancient Rome, turning up to sports events to see mayhem akin to gladiators fighting for their very lives?

Stars in two of the country’s most prominent sports were asking those kinds of questions Sunday.

Here in the UK, we’ve made our sports a lot safer. Cricketers now wear helmets and even our footballers wear protection on their lower legs.

But after reading the article on CNN, it might appear that the United States is going the other way. Read the article and the comments and draw your own conclusions.

October 11, 2012 - Posted by AnonW | Sport, World | United States