A Defining Moment For 55 Plus Games
10/10/2008 04:10
Help me out here
folks, please.
On second thought, help out the misguided souls at the Alberta 55 Plus Games who ran the ad you see to the right with this item. (Click on ad to see larger image.)
Note they list “winter” and “summer” sports.
While I’m sure you all can read, here is what they call “winter” sports:
Euchre, badminton, 5-pin bowling, duplicate bridge, snooker, carpet bowling, cross country skiing, ice curling hockey, scrabble, table shuffleboard and table tennis.
So-called summer sports are listed as:
Athletics, cribbage, contract bridge, cycling, disk golf, floor curling, golf horseshoes, military whist, 8 ball pool, darts, slo-pitch, swimming, tennis, boccee, writing and arts & crafts.
Good Lord who let the inmates out to run the asylum?
From the list above, I submit that the following are neither summer, nor winter “sports”:
Euchre, badminton, 5-pin bowling, duplicate bridge, snooker, carpet bowling, scrabble, table shuffleboard, table tennis, cribbage, contract bridge, floor curling, military whist, 8 ball pool, darts, swimming, writing or arts and crafts.
Lemme see, that makes 18 of 30 sports wrongly labelled as either summer or winter when they are obviously playable year round.
I guess at the end of
the day, it’s all in fun, not only for the
contestants, but for the rather misguided souls
who try and label games that are so obviously
year round activities so as to “slot” them into
unwieldily pigeon holes.
And on top to change the name from what they are, “senior games” to the catchy “55 Plus” designation is pure folly.
Ask any senior who gained “Freedom 55” recently to tell you how their investments are going this past month.
