Courage in Sport - Part Three - Rugby and Cricket Tales
I see it all the time at the resorts. Snowboarders who have dropped into a line that eventually leads them into a long drawn out gulley. You see them suffer as they flail their arms around trying to move forward or eventually take off their snowboard completely and walk out. For most snowboarders this is often a horrible experience. You get so tired from trying to push yourself out, you get hot and sweaty with your goggles fogging up, your skier friends are waiting for you, Ugh! It gets even worse on powder day and even worse than that if it is really deep. The core muscles you need just to push yourself up and out of that awkward hole makes you wish you had trained a little more in the summer and pre-season.
Then there are the snowboarders who are searching for a fresh line of powder just like everyone else. They get into these traverses that seem endless. Our legs are pumped, so pumped that we have to take a break when we reach the line we wish to drop into. Oh and that's if you make the traverse. Often, we don't make the traverse and we end up having to drop in early thus getting separated from our friends, cliffed out, or just lost.
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All types of sports are popular globally, but what sports can we call THE most popular in the world? Some of the answers may surprise you.
It's no surprise that football, or what Americans call "soccer" is the world's most popular sport to play and to watch. An estimated 3.5 billion people either watch or play football. The World Cup is the global championship of the sport and this tournament is played every four years. The World Cup itself is one of the highest rated sports on television, with many countries tuning in en masse to watch their country's team play. Football is popular in all of the UK, Europe, Asia as well as South America. However, with so many other sports being popular, the Unites States still lags behind in their interest in "soccer".
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Rugby League- John Sattler
In 2014, Australian rugby league side South Sydney, owned by actor Russell Crowe and known as The Rabbitohs, won the Grand Final for the first time since 1971. One of the men there to see it was ex-Rabbitoh captain, John Sattler.
Sattler, who began playing the game only at age 16, captained the South Sydney team in the 1970 Grand Final against old rivals Manly-Warringah. Three minutes into the game, prop forward Sattler was hit hard in a tackle by opposite number, John Bucknall, who then smashed a right hook into the left side of Sattler's face.
As play continued, Sattler struggled to his feet, aware that he was in trouble. Using a finger, he felt around inside his mouth, encountering first a hole in the left side of the jaw and after further exploration, another hole to the right. He also discovered a split in the middle of the lower gum line. His jaw had been broken in three places.
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