“Extreme” sports (Heath & Potter)
January 2nd, 2008 | Published in Sports, Psychology, Quotes, Culture
There is nothing really “extreme” about extreme sports. Nothing that boarders do in a half-pipe is even remotely as dangerous as playing football. Extreme sports are just sports for people who don’t want to be mistaken for jocks. Once the jocks start doing them, the distinction will be lost, and so it will be time to move on to something new.
–Joseph Heath and Andrew Potter, Nation of Rebels: Why Counterculture Became Consumer Culture (UK Edition, 2004), p. 132