Nov 29 2007
Team Sports
What is it about us that loves to root for “the Team”— our Team, that is.
All through early school, high school, college, there was a team to root for. Now, in midlife, there is the local team, the national team or the american league team. No matter in which part of the country you live, there is a team to support.
We buy sweatshirts, tee shirts, hats, bumper stickers, anything that has the team logo well displayed—as if we were a member of the team. And I guess we are.
We all live vicariously through others. We might not be able to pitch a baseball like Curt Schilling, but we support him when he does. Tom Brady can throw touchdown passes all day long, and each one of them carries a little bit of our own hope to make it work.
It’s an interesting phenom of growing older. We carry the hopes and dreams of our early years with us. And though our bodies can’t respond as well as we might wish them to, our minds and hearts are carried on by the team we love.
