It takes hard work and a lot of dedication to become a professional athlete at the highest level, and those who do make it are praised all over the media. The media critics, praises, points out the flaws and occasionally insults a professional athlete. I came across a website a little while back that takes another approach to sports and its superstars, that it mocks them in a very clever way. The website I’m talking about is www.sportspickle.com, it’s a website that talks about the big sports teams and clowns at them in a very different approach. The writers for this website understand the game but at the same time are very comical on what they are writing about. What this website is trying to point out is the over analyzing that happens in sports, and to an extent they are right. An example of this on TV after every hockey game that has been played in this year’s playoffs there is a panel that sits and discusses the game and breaks down every single detail in slow motion and tries to explain to its viewers what had had just happened. What the website challenges is the knowledge of the fan watching the sport and the over explaining done by its reporters. Its readers have to understand the sport inner terminology to get their hoaxes otherwise it would seem like a whole bunch of nonsense to the reader. The website also takes shots at the masterminds of the games; I’m talking about the clip board holder the coaches. I read an article a while back on the website in which it to aim at one of the greatest sports coach’s of all time, Phil Jackson. It was joking about his famous triangle offence,(for those of you who may not know the triangle offence is an offence run by three players , hence the name triangle.) well it wasn’t working anymore in the games so one of the writers suggested that Jackson had come out with a new offensive tactic called the octagon offence. The joke here was that the octagon offense would require 8 people to run when the maximum amount of players allowed on the court is 5 per team. Although the website does make fun of sports, their intentions are of good nature and by no means insulting, its articles take a lighter approach to the competitive aspects of sports.
Overall www.sportspickle.com has done wonderfully with its work, and if you enjoy sports as much as me, I would recommend that you check it out! What the website represents is a lighter aspect to the world of sports, its funny and witty making it a fun read. It successful at the topics it targets and if you enjoy sports as much as I do than I recommend that you check it out.
No comments:
Post a Comment