Sports - Passion and Religion?

I am one of those guys that could sit on the couch all day and watch sports. I've got a great wife that understands my passion, and for the most part, allows me to be extremely lazy some days to practice that passion.

Today, I had the opportunity to go to the Purdue basketball game with some friends of the family. There is not too much more exciting than experiencing the passion of thousands of others, just like me, first hand.....the sound....the lights, the smell of really expensive crappy food....you can't beat it.

I've got a poster in my office at work that sums it up. Its a shot from the top of the University of Pittsburgh's Cathedral of Learning - high above Forbes Field during Game 7 of the 1960 World Series between the Yanks and the Pirates. At the bottom of the image, the text reads: "Baseball? It's just a game. As simple as a ball and a bat, yet as complex as the American spirit it symbolizes. It's a sport, a business and sometimes even a religion." -- Ernie Harwell

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