It’s all about more. More speed, more torque. Bigger and faster is better. We have Indy blood.
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Sports. It conjures up images of tremendous endurance, speed, muscle and talent. Baseball, football and tennis players hit hard. With intensity and aggressiveness, the tempo here is fast. Move! Hit! Want to win? Get tough. Survival of the fittest. Sports generate very powerful emotions for both competitor and spectator alike. It’s all about more. More speed, more torque. Bigger and faster is better. We have Indy blood. We live for Armstrong pulling away from the pack—Tiger at one stroke back with two holes to play in the championship. Vicarious sports fans are addicted to the lip-curled, anytime, anywhere-you-want attitude. You want to see fanatical? Sit next to me during the Olympics when the Americans are competing.
We love this stuff. And why shouldn’t we?
Then it should come as no surprise that we naturally bring this same wide-open, go-for-it passion into our sporting game. If smashing a hypersonic teal and the 50-yard battue off the tower on report doesn’t make your heart pitter-patter a little faster, what are you doing here?.....
Published in Sporting Clays Magazine, December 2003.