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[quote name=\'PaulD\' post=\'149843\' date=\'Apr 8 2007, 09:03 PM\']
I've just never liked word search games. It could be because I'm no good at them hence I don't like watching them.
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I absolutely suck at playing basketball (I'm 5'2"), but that doesn't stop me from watching the Final Four.
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The difference, I think, is that game shows--at least good game shows--practically beg the viewer to play along, whereas televised sporting events are intended for spectating, not viewer participation. Bob Stewart once said he wanted the Pyramid viewer, during the Winner's Circle, to be shouting clues at the TV ("the sun," "a lit stove" for "Things That Are Hot," for example); Roone Arledge was, to my knowledge, never quoted to the effect that he wanted ABC's Wide World of Sports viewers to start downhill skiing in their living rooms. (If they did attempt to participate in, say, relay races, they might soon feel the agony of de feet, though. Oh, dear. Did I just make Donegan look good?)