Did anyone else suddenly remember what Dave Barry wrote about Sumo in America? :wink:
I dunno who that is, please explain? =D
Like superjaz3p said, Dave Barry was a comical columist who wrote about various funny topics. He has a book out where he describes his travels in Japan. One chapter included his reasoning as to why sumo wouldn't catch on in the USA.
Here's what I remember from the book (please note this is not word for word).
The thing about Sumo in the US is we would make too much of a spectacle of it. I can see this sort of scenario happening at a match:
"And that concludes our pre-game show which, may I remind you, started at 5 pm yesterday. Now let's go over to our field camera with Bob on the line. How our things, Bob?"
"They're fine Bobby. As you can see the excitement is raising with these two champions about to come out. Our entrance camera shows us the line running out the door and down the city blocks."
"That's great to hear. Now let's go over to food-vendor camera and see what's happening with Billy. Billy, are you there?"
"Yes I am and what a match this will be. People are buying food left and right, ready to watch a great match-up."
"Good to hear now let's go to our urinal camera with Billy-Bob."
"People are hurrying, not willing to miss a second of this match. I've been in this stall for the past 15 minutes and people are ready to bang the door down."
"Alright, keep us posted as things develop. And... what's this? It appears from our 'guys outside in the camera van' camera that they're holding up a sign. It says, "They just had the match you cretins!" Oh, well, um, let's go over to our locker camera to see how-"
