Competitive Sports

Watching competitive sports is interesting, especially if your in a gym full of rowdy people who are willing to get into the sport. In theory we would all cheer for every one when they do something good in a sport. In the Absolutely True Diary of a Part Time Indian the attitude that is in the basketball games hits really close to true. The Indians were booing Arnold for reasons other then sports but the Reardon fans were booing on the principle that the Indians were on the other team. When Arnold took the ball out of Rowdy's hands in the second game and the Reardon team exploded in cheering you can see were the loyalty is. Arnold is an Indian and they are playing Indians but since Arnold is on the Reardon team that is over looked. It's amazing the things that people will over look, things that are flaws or in this case just a fact of life, or their racism or what ever to give their sports team a leg up.