Does watching sport make us happy?
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Does watching sport make us happy? That seems an easy one: when our lot win it does, when they lose it doesn't.
Except it's never that simple.
Only one team in a division can win the title each season.
Only one player can win a Grand Slam event or major.
Only one captain can raise the Six Nations trophy this weekend.
"Sport is about people who lose and lose and lose," the great American journalist
Gay Talese
once wrote.
"They lose games, then they lose their jobs.
"
Losers.
Hundreds of thousands of losers.
When the United Nations decreed 20 March to…
Except it's never that simple.
Only one team in a division can win the title each season.
Only one player can win a Grand Slam event or major.
Only one captain can raise the Six Nations trophy this weekend.
"Sport is about people who lose and lose and lose," the great American journalist
Gay Talese
once wrote.
"They lose games, then they lose their jobs.
"
Losers.
Hundreds of thousands of losers.
When the United Nations decreed 20 March to…
