"John H" wrote in message

.....Very often when people are prevented from
engaging in an activity they become opposed to the activity. Then they
try to make it seem as though they are..."too good" to engage in said
activity.

Of course, very often these same people will come back with a list of
all the sports at which they "excelled".

You may be on the right track re Harry, or not. In the scheme of things,
he's a source of chuckles, and little more. I do know that professional
team sports are an irritant to some of the professional union people I know
(people actually running unions, not flitting around the periphery as he
does), because professional team sports fly in the face of a great deal that
unions believe in. Through their so-called "Players Associations", pro
athletes have managed to effect the fiscal extortion that is so common among
all large unions, but they can't seem to break this whole performance issue.
Pro sports and entertainment (is that a redundancy?) are the only two major
unionized areas where performance remains paramount. If you can't show
results better than most of your peers, you fail. Period. And you
disappear. This is nigglingly bothersome to unions, because their credo
dictates everything be collective -- like a pure form of communism. No
individual is given accolades as hero, and no individual is responsible for
failure.

In a broader sense, it is noteworthy that these two areas -- pro sports and
entertainment -- are virtually the only areas where no form of affirmative
action has been applied, and these are the areas where minority participants
have proven overwhelmingly successful. Collective protection is not an
incentive to stellar performance.