Sports

So I finally turned on the FIFA World Cup (it is America's first game after all).  I should be studying.  Or catching up on that BARBRI lecture I missed.  Or even cleaning my apartment.

But I'm not.

Instead, I turned on the World Cup.  And not because I'm altogether interested.  Thirty seconds in I was confused.  And when I get confused about sports I get frustrated.  But I also want to learn.  So, half an hour later, the game is still on.

I'll blame this distraction on my new friends in BARBRI.  I finally started to bond with some of my classmates.  And the guys next to me in particular love soccer and the World Cup, which makes you curious after a while.

I will say, I don't think I'll ever be a soccer fan.

In half an hour, one American has been taken off the field with a hamstring injury (and having finally experienced my own, ouch!) while another got wtfpwned by a leg to the face.

Good grief.

When I have kids, if I ever have kids, I really want them to do what they want.  I mean, there are some things I'd love to see them do (like gymnastics), and I'll definitely help them get started.  Actually, they'll be required to play at least one team sport and take some kind of artsy class of their choice.  Otherwise, they are free to do what they want.  I've promised myself to do what I can to hold myself back from holding them back.

There will be rules.  You can't quit anything after a bad day.  You go back again, and once you've had a better day and you still want to quit, I shall let you (with a few possible exceptions, like mid-season stuff).

The other big rule?

My kids will not be allowed to play soccer or do cheerleading (at least as long as cheerleading is not classified as a sport).

There may be other sports I eventually learn are too dangerous, but it's definitely those two for now.  And watching the World Cup has only solidified that.

Soccer has so many concussions.  And cheerleading has almost no rules and regulations.  I don't want my kids doing it.

Lots of sports are dangerous.  There are plenty who will argue I've picked very weird ones to develop grudges, and so be it.

But my kids will not play soccer if I can help it.  And cheerleading, as it currently stands, is out.



P.S. If I have my way, my kids will be gymnasts, or swimmers, or divers (which my mom hates), or equestrian.  Gymnastics is totally at the top of that list.

P.P.S. Go USA