The Fox Escapes Sometimes So Should Win A Trophy (Foxhunting - is this sport?)

Member Name: eyedo6789

Product:	Foxhunting - is this sport?
Date:	23/03/09 (58 review reads)
Rating:

Advantages: Lets The Posh Feel Superior To Peasants And Foxes

Disadvantages: No League Tables or World Championships

Foxhunting is not really a sport in my opinion for a number of reasons.

There aren't really any properly set out rules. There isn't a clear winner amongst the competitors at the end of the hunt.

As far as I'm aware there are no official championships, leagues, league tables, individual or team performance ratings or rankings or anything like that. So how exactly do you measure who is good at foxhunting and who isn't?

If it is a sport in the true competitive sense of the word then there needs to be a measurement of ability and results, but their aren't any.

But is it a sport if you compare it to some other activities that are called a "sport"?

Rowing: This isn't really a sport is it? You can do it sitting down. The boat goes backwards which is daft. Mainly posh people do it and the posh aren't exactly hard are they? Give me the budget and let me take rowing into the inner cities to the working classes. Within 2 years the working class hard men and women rowers would be cruising past the toffs.

Fishing (Angling): How is this a sport and shouldn't it be called fish tricking? Why not have a sport called Daddy Long Legs catching as it would be about the same mismatch between man and animal as fishing is.

Large Super Sized Vegetable Growing: This is just a sad activity and sometimes it can even cause fights between competitors and dawn raid acts of sabotage "down the allotments".

Synchronised Swimming: A made up "sport" by nose clip and swimming goggle manufacturers. A master stroke, or not as the case may be.

Fox hunting is a sporting activity of sorts but not a sport in my opinion.

Summary: It Just Isn't A Proper Sport