Jesus does Jones

okay girls get excited! Jim Caviezel, who I think is the bomb is playing Bobby Jones in Stroke of Genius. Find me someone who looks like this guy!

I have been keeping up with this legendary golfer Bobby Jones as his story is one that we can all relate to. I am not a big golf fan either, not since Tin Cup with Kevin Costner. ANYWAY...

The movie is being compared to some of the big ones. One in particular is Oscar winner Chariots of Fire. The backdrop was track and field, the story about two guys who had to make some serious decisions about their public and private lives and whether to run.

As I've read Bobby Jones had said that he played for the love of the game and when you start to play for the money then you can not say it is for the love any longer.

Transferring this over to running - could stand for some debate. As my coach seems to think it is not all true. You could say that you still love it AND play for the money.

I think you lose some of the reason behind why you started running to begin with - is it really for the love anymore? Some of you more serious runners may have an opinion?

I think it will be a movie to see!

Monica makes a good point about love of sport or money. I think the sport of running is unadulterated by lots of money. Professional runners HAVE to love running. It certainly isn't because there's a huge payback. But in my book, they are the MOST dedicated athletes in the U.S. and I respect them MORE than the high paid pro athletes in the other sports.

Certainly, our sport of running is different from golf, baseball, basketball, and football....the money sports created by large corporate America.

If we could package the marathon and run it in a stadium, then maybe we could sell it to the TV networks and Corporate America would sponsor it and all our runners would make enough money to eat and live better.

But we'd have to make it a "contact" sport to make it marketable in America. We've come to expect that in football, boxing, basketball, and hockey. The more contact, the more popular.

Seeing a guy get knocked on his butt and having a concussion does not make a great sport in my book. I think it's ridiculous the way we have come to accept the insane physical attacks in some of our professional sports.

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