Football is Not a “Freak Show”

Football is the greatest game in the world because it's a competition between humans. Not mutants

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Phelps. X-man

Olympic Games are a stage for people with certain beneficial genetic mutations.

According to Juan Enriquez, the founding director of the Life Sciences Project at Harvard Business School: “Every male Olympic power athlete tested carries at least one copy of the 577R genotype”. A hormone that is usually not found in other human beings. “The Olympics are a genetic freak show”, says Timothy Caulfield, Canada Research Chair in Health Law and Technology, in the Canadian Medical Association Journal.

Anyhow, you don’t really need a diploma to see that Michael Phelps and other swimmers are “X-Men“. They have a perfect triangular  torso, long legs and HUGE feet – they are like a mermaid. Male Gymnasts, with a bit of martial arts training, can easily turn into Spiderman or Batman. Sprinters like Usain Bolt are super-humans.

The athletes in the Olympics are in fact hard working mutants. Don’t get me wrong, the Olympic games are great to watch but they also explain why football is such a popular sport. I doubt Andres Iniesta could be a great Olympian. Luka Modric is not exactly a sprinter, Santi Cazorla is a tad chubby  and It’s hard to imagine Wayne Rooney succeeding the pool. In short, it’s so easy for us to relate with them.

In short, football is the greatest game in the world because it’s a competition between humans. Not mutants.

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  1. Ido Cochavi added these pithy words on August 3, 2012 | Permalink

    I quite disagree with this post.

    If you’ll take a closer look about the current situation within most of the top football players you’ll see that they are as well “X-Men”.

    The utmost majority of the top players today are not men, but carefully engineered football machines.
    C. Ronaldo, W. Rooney, Balotelli, etc.
    Their athleticism level is not at all common within the other player category after them.

    If only, you can see the trend of super-players is just increasing. Players are scouted and trained at the ages of 7 to 14.
    The vast gap between mediocre players to top players will just keep growing larger.

    Players today that they’re less than a perfect athletes just won’t make the cut for the top levels no more.
    In the 80′s and even early 90′s players like Paul Gascoigne could have find their spot. Not quite the athlete nor the sportsman, but a rare and genius talent on the pitch. There’s no way Gazza would’ve accepted to become a pro football player today.

    Look at the players who are staring today. most of them are players who got physically developed more than others. remember Balotelli at the age of 16? let me promise you that neither I or my friends didn’t look like this at the age (nor today).

    Eventually it will come to the point, like in the olympic games, that the performance differences between amateur and professional athletes will be tremendous.

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