Professional Sports “Matter Little In Big Picture Of Life,” Says Man Writing Column In College Newspaper

Let us consider Joe Bechard, Cultural Obstetrician. (Coming Wednesday nights to NBC this fall!) For a while now, he’s been my second-favorite Emerald columnist, and today he doesn’t disappoint: while most of the column is a fairly generic sports-are-for-idiots bromide which doesn’t really merit a response, there’s more fun to be had within. Mr Bechard, now more than usual, reads as though he has just been removed from a time capsule, having been interred scant minutes after the invention of the printing press or the cathode ray tube. Seriously, check it out.

Dozens of channels, with their glitzy production capabilities, would broadcast the events with all-star color commentators and sideline reporters.

We could even go one step further, and have a network that broadcasts actual debates from the floor of Congress!

Entire sections of newspapers would be dedicated solely to politics…

What a thing that would be. I also envision a world in which an entire section of the newspaper would be devoted to feedback from readers, perhaps in the form of letters, which could be printed together with a snappy bold headline summarizing the correspondent’s point of view. How about another section, which would cover arts and entertainment outside the world of sports? And perhaps community news, also. On the other hand, no. Nobody would care about that.

But my world will never exist…

It’s true, Joe, you were born too soon. But take solace in the thought that we’re all better off having clever people like you around to tell us what form our entertainment should take.

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