This video by the sports hq is one showing this offer for a golf package in the U.K. Not the first thing one would expect to come up under the sports hq. In fact, it's not something that I would at all associate with the sports hq, because quite frankly the sports hq seems to me like it should be about football, basketball, baseball maybe, all the good popular American sports. But that might just be because I am American, I grew up American, and so I only know what the sports hq in American looks like.
I've discovered lately that sports really aren't that bad. This is quite an admission coming from a woman who never, ever, ever before in her life exhibited any interest whatsoever in sports except for figure skating and ballroom dancing (hardly sporty sports, if you know what I mean). But I live in a house in which ESPN Sports Center is on a lot, and that is kind of the sports hq for America, and so I've learned a lot more about sports than I would have if left to my own devices. I've learned to appreciate the beauty of some truly great plays, and learned a lot more about the rules and conventions of football, basketball, and sports in general.
I credit the sports hq for this. I like talking, I like listening to people talk, and so when exposed to people on the sports hq talking sports for a long time, I started to pick up on some of the stuff they were saying. I started to notice some patterns in sports, patterns I had never picked up on before (although some of them seemed obvious enough that perhaps I should have). The sports hq commentators make things much more interesting than if I was just trying to figure out the rules and nuances of a sport all by myself. While a lot of what people on the sports hq say is blowing smoke or filling time or exaggerating for the sake of pointless publicity drama, there is almost always things to learn when other people are talking, if you just open your ears long enough to hear it. Even from the sports hq anchors or whatever they call their people over there.
A large part of my appreciation for the sports hq was on the day that a women's college basketball team set an American sports record for most won games in a row. I was exposed to a powerful female side of sports and athleticism that I had never seen before, and if I do start watching sports ever (which is a pretty big if) it will be for the sake of watching teams like those young women; teams that aren't getting paid the big bucks to do what they're doing, but are doing it because they love to. Teams that do the best they can even when they have to put up with harsh, bitter, and cutting remarks from other professional (and usually male) teams. So thanks to the sports hq for showing the good stuff, the underdogs and the powerful butt-kicking females. Female athletes get little enough of the attention and assistance compared to that of male athletes, but if people like me claiming to be feminist can just follow the call of the sports hq and start following female sports just as passionately as male sports, then perhaps those girls and women will have a shot at getting the kind of attention they deserve.
