“If a tie is like kissing your sister, losing is like kissing you grandmother with her teeth out.”
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As a kid I was short and only weighed 95 pounds. And though I was active in a lot of Sports and got along with most of the guys, I think I used comedy as a defense mechanism. You know making someone laugh is a much better way to solve a problem than by using your fists.
Sports and entertainment are the only places where inner-city kids see themselves being able to succeed. Their intellectual development is something they don't relate to.
Have you ever noticed what golf spells backwards?
The plays and sports of children are as salutary to them as labor and work are to grown persons.