Good stuff Paps. You very well may be on to something here. Then again, my Dad has been saying
just this about NBA, NFL, MLB competition for decades. It's seems now that he is also fed up with college level sports. I really can't argue with him because he's right.
At any rate, the level of physical contact in the World Cup and the NBA Finals, for that matter, are actually quite impressive in some odd way. These games of finesse transforming into contact sport.