There is always a certain pleasure in seeing an underdog fight against the favourites (unless ofcourse the favourites are your home team or the underdog is an English team)
Its fun to see Australia struggle against Bangladesh - its almost romantic to see the impossible happen. It was an unbelievable match the other day when South Africa actually chased 435 in 50 overs - teams struggle to chase 300 odd in test matches.
What makes the underdog fight romantic is the fact that no one really expects it to happen. The war against the impossible is always fascinating.
It probably brings out hidden desires in everyone's mind. Almost everyone is an underdog in some way or the other, in something or the other. The head of a family watching a match might be an underdog at work, it would be his innermost desire to outshine his brilliant rival and then impress his boss to get that one promotion which hangs in balance. But reality probably dictates otherwise. For those brief moments when you see that underdog launch a fight that threatens to overturn reality, one starts believing - one imagines the what if scenario and for that one brief moment, one actually entertains the possibility of doing that impossible thing. "If they could do that, why cant i try to do this"
Thats why people watch films - to indulge in a fantasy, to see heros with qualities that they would want to possess, to live that dream for a fleeting few minutes
Monday, April 10, 2006
Of Underdogs
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5 comments:
dude..so long only a select few knew u suck... and now u wanna make trhe whole world know! Happi blogging :D
aaah the first comment on me blog!
Watch Casablanca again :-)
Where have all the good men gone? The paladins no longer race across the plains.
Llife's become ordinary.
and then the phoenix rises again
Banjo
:-)
hmm im partial 2 underdogs myself n i was one:) shake- nupur.
The fascination comes from the fact that nothing pleases/entertains people's vivid imagination more than to watch a hero fail.....
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