Fairness to sports fans

There are actually Christian athletes and coaches out there where if you look hard enough or by chance, the most well-known example that I can think of’s Tim Tebow but he’s also not the only one around as there’s the report of athletes having sermon before playing sports.

There’s also a correlation between sports and Christianity, with regards to football being introduced to Goa along with Christianity. There are also cases of nuns playing sports, where in something I recall there’s a report or document of nuns playing basketball so sports fans and athletes alike are in good company.

It could work

As strange as it sounds, a detective that runs and does things quickly could actually work if Devil May Cry’s Dante Sparda’s any indication. He’s said to be a detective and mercenary and actually has super speed himself. It’s actually not much of a stretch for Barry Allen, who as a speedster, to have more of an affinity for escapology and tracking. If you run real fast, that’s useful for easily escaping bad situations.

There’s even a folk tale where a girl averts her ordeal by just running away from the wolf. That’s not to say Barry’s dumb but that involves him actually outwitting or avoiding his opponents without being so overpowered in the most realistic way. Sometimes if something’s going to charge at or kill you, move away. That could’ve been done before.

It wouldn’t matter at what speed Barry runs, what matters is if he survives long enough to even averting misfortune. The biggest problem is that even if there are people who do things real quickly and likely so did he, Barry’s now more jock than nerd. Even if it’s not always exactly the case especially when those at team sports get bullied themselves.

But that it gives an idea of what’ll happen when Spider-Man’s Flash Thompson becomes super-powered, without succumbing to Venom or something. Even odder still, Barry Allen’s what Flash Thompson would be like if he were also Peter Parker. (Logically Green Goblin’s both Joker and Lex Luthor.)

Usain Bolt’s the fastest human alive and is now currently playing football. Despite having different ethnicities, one gets the impression that’s what Barry Allen’s like if he were real though it could be me being interested in sports and having somebody who runs every weekend. (I do hazily remember playing football myself.)

Realistically, even if Barry never became a detective he’d be a combination of both Harry Houdini (escape artist) and Usain Bolt.

The weird thing about bodybuilding

While other sports aren’t necessarily blameless as far as steroids are around, yet it’s infamously associated with bodybuilding. Bodybuilding is really one trainwreck of a sport in terms of reputation. It’s practically about exercising oneself to fulfill an idealised physique but it’s messed up due to people pursuing a more ludicrous look that bodybuilding divisions have to be made depending on degree of muscularity.

In other sports, it’s either due to the level of skill they have (judo), the techniques they do, weight division or the positions they have to act out (goalies, fielders and wingers though I might have a sketchy knowledge of football/soccer). Football, wrestling, baseball, rugby and fencing also have stedheads. But bodybuilding’s infamous for how blatant its issues are in some regards.

Nor all these sports necessarily any less homoerotic either (there are nude calendars and shots of these people) and they’re not any less homophobic either (homophobic bullying’s a problem as it is anywhere else). Bodybuilding’s peculiar not necessarily because it’s unique in having those but because it’s magnified a lot more as I know about it.

Older bodybuilding magazines were assumed to be gay porn. All the other sports aren’t necessarily any less homoerotic (or homophobic) but at least involve a lot of legitimate action. Not that bodybuilders aren’t any less athletic and there are those with legitimate athletic training but not when they have to straddle the line between performance and accidental objectification.

That and gay for pay.