Sports and Othello

After watching the movie "O", we discussed the how the producers chose the sport of basketball instead of any other sport. I was really intrigued with this discussion because I really love sports. I thought that one other sport that could have been played throughout this movie that would have brought out all of the same qualities would be football. With football, you have somewhat of the racism aspect but also some of the aspects with the "star player."

Even though I was very involved as a child and teenager in sports, I never really stood back and looked around to see what was happening besides the actual sport being played. Sometimes, the "star player" gets all the glory, while the person with the assist does more work than the them. But no one on the team realizes that expect the person that assisted the "star player".

Throughout my childhood and teenage years I played golf. Golf to most people is an individual sport, but in highschool it turns to a team sport. The top four scores are always counted and then compared with another teams to see who won. Although this was basketball like in the movie, "O", I still tried to compare golf with it. I compared it a little because sometimes our high school team had one star player, who always got the lowest score. The coach would always praise her for all her hardwork, even though everyone else put in the honest effort just like she did. And all of our scores also counted towards our Regional Championship Title. In some ways, other girls on the team felt left out, while the girl who got all the media press and praise never felt that way, at least to the outside world.

Has anyone ever been involved in a sport other than basketball or football that they tried to relate this movie to it? I know it was kind of difficult to, and maybe I didn't do it the right way, but I tried.