FOOTBALL

(And don't think it's a title I will use much more often than just this one time...)

So surely a certain cycling event of 2007 is coming down on its knees as the doped sword of politics, hungry media-wolves hanky-panking >whatevaaar-just-print-MY-story<, commercialised money-tanks overbidding each other >please-print-my-logo-in-your-arse< (and sadly the more it will be overbid the further the logo has to go up in that arse...).

Call what it is, the beginning of the end of the world's toughest cycling-race, Tour de France, as we know it today - and thank fck for that. Holy my. If THAT's what sports about, I rather be sitting with a plastic spoon deep down a liter of gmf-icecream and burp away on the couch watching reruns of Winter Olympics 1975 - just for the fun of watching the fashion from those times.

But, sport is not dead. It just seems it's much better off when the media plays a positive and active part, politics stays out, and the sport itself actually becomes the logo!

Anyone who doesn't remember FC Zulu!? The 16 geeks that TV2 Zulu turned into the crappiest but surely the funniest football team in the North!? 16 guys with sleeky hair, pimples and coca cola cans growing out of their armpits, who surely never had dreamt once in their creepiest nigtmares to end up as calendar boys either, was turned into the only male football team that lost against the girls...?? Then it's fun watching sport ;)

Anyway, what was it for? Charity? Well, it did get popular enough! Fun for others to watch? Definitely. Fun for them? Njaaah, sometimes maybe - but they hung around didn't they?? Test to see if it's possible to change another persons current environment and add new active elements?? Well, perhaps. Nevertheless, it was fun watching sports, and you did secretly hope that next time they could beat the girls, cos their efforts deserved it.

Other unusual football matches could revolve around these guys, who wont play on a big football field with grass hoping that Nike will parasuit down from the tribune with a contract made of pure gold. Nope, these guys have decided not to hang around and let life pass in front of their eyes - literally - but instead play their own active role to change their lives for something better, and at least for their own better health...

Another interesting and active idea; Homeless World Cup 2007