Sport For The Socially Reclusive

Think of a sporting event. Got one? Well then bloody think of one like I told you to!

Right, got one now? Good.

It's football, isn't it? Or basketball. Or rugby. Or cricket. Or anything that's played on a field by a team of considerable size.

How about if I told you to think of a sport you might find at the Olympics. You're thinking of running, aren't you? Well bloody think of an Olympic sport like I told you to!

Right, it's a running event, isn't it? Or swimming. Or boxing. Or table tennis. Or gymnastics. Or Dream Platform. Why does nobody ever think of archery any more?

Considering the popularity of role playing games set in medieval times with dragons and mages and collecting logs to trade for a lump of iron (or some shite like that), you'd think more people would be into going über-retro and shooting arrows from bits of wood and taut string. Then again, the kind of people who venture into such role playing worlds aren't exactly the sporty types; hence the majority of sporting focus coming from those who couldn't concentrate on a classroom whiteboard for long enough without bursting into flames, but easily managed to cause physical injury by means of kicking a spherical bit of leather into somebody's (my) face as hard as their swinging leg would let them. (School was a bad time for me, you know, socially.)

So I call out to you, nerds and geeks, bully victims and introverts, wallflowers and nobodies, let us claim the world of sport from the big kids who pushed us around and from the sex addicted footballers as well. Let us rise up and take aim at a tiny target some variable yet considerable distance away from us. Let us not be bombarded with coverage of men running around a field shouting racial insults at each other. Let us reinvent sport for the socially reclusive, with more focus towards accuracy, dexterity and occasionally a bit of blind luck because we're oh so sensitive like that we take it to heart when we lose but try our best not to show it. Let us compete one on one in all kinds of events. One does not just have to try archery. We also offer snooker, darts, tennis, pub quiz, ludo, judo, snap, even Wii Bowling.

Come on, you numpties! Get off World of Warcraft or whatever (WoWoW) and do it for real rather than for role!

The preceding ramble was motivated by the following sentence:
I competed in a University archery tournament at the weekend and did alright, but loads of people beat me in the end.