If things have to go wrong, they will, or so Murphy's Law states. In today's ever changing world, definitions keep popping up much like popcorn in a microwave. The Sport or The Game keeps changing much like a chameleon changes its colors.
What a sport is today may not have been a sport yesterday. What sport is for some may not be a sport for many. So, do we stick to the parlance that is in vogue, or to the one that has seen an obituary. Or do we coin our own terminology to satiate ourselves?
Sport is anything that is activity based. Does it include role playing? Yes. Methodology? Yes (more about that in Game below). Skill? Not exactly.
To be a sport you just need to be a part of the activity or the activity itself. For some, killing is a sport where they derive their pleasure from the pain of others, or the execution (doing) of that act. For some others, earning money is a sport, which implies that making money and the method to make money is the sport. For some, playing a game is sport - like a game of football (physical and mental activity), or a game of chess (mental activity). So, what are all the things that are involved in a Sport? We have pleasure, pain, activity (physical, mental, etc.), and a type of sport (i.e. Game) to involve themselves in.
A Game is the construction of an activity along with its object set (the props, etc.). While anything can become a sport, not everything can become a Game. For some life is a game that they play along with a set of rules and methods that they established. For others, a game is pretty much the set of rules, regulations, and props, such as a ball and a bat in baseball.
So, my dear Bleachers, here are some common adages that we can mark in our scratch notes.
Sports do not build character. They reveal it. ---Haywood Hale Brown
Mr. Brown must have swallowed his lunch at the time he made that statement, or his dog must be eyeing that big pork chop on his luncheon plate. He does not understand that to wait for that pork chop, and not to snatch it as soon as he sees it, is a strength of character that is built. It required the dog to be trained, motivated, and an attitude to stick to the rules of the game, i.e., not to seize the meat until it is his chance.
To build the character is itself a sport, and only a thing that can be revealed can be built upon, as it allows you to measure the starting point. Mike Tyson was forced to learn to adapt to the world's changing view of him, otherwise he would have been just the bad boy of boxing. When one plays rugby, one might feel omnipotent, but then at the end of the day, one has to learn to adapt and accept the vagaries of change; of fickle loss and gain.
You have to learn the rules of the game. And then, you have to play better than anyone else. ---Albert Einsten
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