DALY: Imagine a sports world virtually free of problems
This photo from Feb. 15, 2011, shows Lance Armstrong during an interview in Austin, Texas. Attorneys for Armstrong have demanded an on-air apology from “60 Minutes” after the head of Switzerland ’s anti-doping laboratory denied allegations the seven-time Tour de France winner tested positive for performance-enhancing drugs at the 2001 Tour de Suisse. (Associated Press)You’ve got the NFL lockout. You’ve got the Jim Tressel mess at Ohio State. You’ve got Lance Armstrong ’s former cycling teammates calling him a doper. Fun athletic times we live in. And it’s not like the last month has been much different from the one before it.
Do you ever wonder whether, at some point, sports fans will simply say: Enough! Actually, let me rephrase that: Can you imagine a time when fans get so fed up with the cheating, the egos, the labor squabbles and all the rest (read: $50 to park) that they turn from real sports to virtual sports? That they become more interested in digital athletes romping across their computer screens than in flesh-and-blood ones?
Call me crazy, a shrieking loon, but I’m finding it easier and easier to picture that kind of world — not in my lifetime, perhaps, but certainly before a meteor strikes the planet. We’ve been told since the days of “Wide World of Sports” that there’s something irresistible about “the human drama of athletic competition.” But what if that “human drama” has too much drama - too much on-field silliness, too much off-field misbehavior … and a seemingly endless succession of scandals? What if sports figures, for all their United Way commercials, cease being admirable or even particularly likeable? Might that not prompt fans to seek alternative thrills?
While channel-surfing the other night, I caught a few minutes of an overlooked 2002 movie, “S1m0ne.” It’s about a producer who inserts a digital actress into his film after his high-maintenance star walks off the set. The computer-generated actress is so realistic that viewers think she actually exists - and “Simone” becomes a worldwide phenomenon.
Why couldn’t that happen in sports? Why couldn’t fans become attached to an athlete made up of 1’s and 0’s instead of muscles — an athlete who did wondrous things on the playing field and, better still, never got arrested for spousal battery? And just think: Cities wouldn’t have to spend hundreds of millions of dollars on stadiums anymore. They could put the money into schools or social programs (or just leave it in the taxpayer’s pocket).
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