The bit about the relative cost of the games works in every country but the US, where football (gridiron) playing requires a bit of an investment. Even eight-year-olds get shoulder pads and wire-cage helmets and snazzola shoes along with several copies of the team uniform, so as a parent you have to be willing to shell out several hundred a year, I'd guess, from the very start. Be glad your kid plays soccer.
cheers, Joanna
At 04:09 14-11-00, you wrote:
>G'day Tom,
>
>
> >Here's what some co-workers of mine were passing around on one of my temp
> >assignments:
> >
> >When workers get together they often talk about football.
> >When middle management meet, they talk about tennis.
> >When top management meet they talk golf.
> >Conclusion: The higher you climb up the corporate ladder the smaller your
> >balls become.
>
>Yeah, but that bit about degrees of individualism fits this, too, no? That
>and the fact you need less money to play footy than tennis, and less to
>play tennis than golf. And golf courses are, by the way, more than
>ecologically 'suspect'. They are an absolute curse! Precious land,
>millions of gallons of clean water, and the deployments of all kinds of
>concentrated nutrients (which change their character to that of pure poison
>when the become run-off). I admit I'm a disgraceful golfer (I lose more
>balls than Tiger Woods has shots), but that ain't my only reason for
>resolving to close down all golf courses when Max makes me Commissar for
>World Sports.
>
>Cheers,
>Rob.
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