“It’s Isaiah’s hero, it’s not the batman, the superman, and all that stuff like other little boys. It’s Kurt” This is what the mother of 9 year old Isaiah Acosta was noted as saying in a recent ESPN piece on Arizona Cardinals quarterback Kurt Warner. Isaiah Acosta was born without a jaw bone and needs tubes to eat, even to breathe. However, Warner has played a huge part in his life as he continues to give back as much as possible. If Warner represented all of sports, sportscaster and sports writer Howard Cosell may have made a different claim about sports then he did. However, Kurt Warner is only a microcosm of sports. The premise about sport that Cosell ends up making is that there shouldn’t be a valid notion that there is good in sport.
Howard Cosell(77) has been around sports a long time and has a lot of experience in the industry. Saying that it’s an “ever spinning spiral of deceit” is a bold statement when the goal of many sports is teamwork, and cooperation is the key to success. Cosell is describing the outcomes of what happens when sports turns into a business where the lone goal is to make money at all cost. This is where his point of defiance of public interest subsides as well. It was noted in class that the Quebec Nordiques were a striving hockey team that sold out its arena night in and night out, although the team was still sold to a group of Colorado businessmen who immediately moved the team to Denver where they could make more money in a larger stadium. The newly named Colorado Avalanche soon won the Stanley Cup with a young bright team that fans in Quebec previously had rooted for.
As a kid growing up in Toronto it was difficult to resist not wanting to be a Maple Leaf one day. Organized hockey came into play in my life, and with minor hockey in Toronto that means the ever competitive levels of the GTHL. After enjoying house league and then moving up and settling in single “A” I was able to witness firsthand the same claims Cosell...