Reply #16: You forgot your sarcasm tag

[Occulus]

All sports are a form of symbolic warfare. Even DCI.

When I was touring with the Madison Scouts drum and bugle corps in 1994, we did a stint in California. It was there I learned a really, really wasteful method of watering football fields.

We entered the field as a vertical line, starting at an endzone, and moved as one to the 50 yard line. As we were doing a final, end-of-day runthrough of that year's show, I noticed a two-foot-high fountain of water out of the corner of my eye in the corner of the field as we were entering the field as I described. "No big deal," I thought. "Broken sprinkler. Meh."

Wrong.

As the runthrough went on, the dry area of the football field grew smaller and smaller. By the end- at which time I, spinning a flag, ended up lying on my side at the end- there was about 4" of standing water on the entire field. We were told that was how they water the damn thing.

Wasteful. I couldn't believe it.

Ban football? Ban drum corps? Eh?

And why did you mention soccer as an environmental waste instead of, say, golf?