Our National Game…

With the Hockey World Cup matches on, I was just wondering how come our National game suffered such a downfall in our country. It is really heart-breaking to know that a Cricketer is needed for promoting the event on TV! It’s time we woke up!

5 reasons for why hockey should be our National game:

1. Because hockey is a very interesting game.
2. Because only as long as hockey is our national game, it would get enough attention.
3. Because we have a national association for hockey.
4. Because the hockey ground is very big. So when people run across the ground, they lose weight  and become fit and don’t have to go on diet.
5. Because since childhood, we were taught that hockey is our National game.

And there are about a thousand reasons for why hockey should not be our National game!

Some of the reasons that I could come up with, right now:

• There are more interesting games in the world!
• People do not mind much about Indian hockey.
• The BCCI is richer than Indian Hockey Federation.
• The Indian hockey players are not even paid properly by the IHF.
• People like a lot of other games more than hockey.

I guess may be the games on Playstations or Cricket should be made our national game. Cricket has more aspirants for it in our country than any other game and it generates an enormous revenue! Needless to talk about the stardom and glamour enjoyed by a Cricketer!

 

And there’s another game that we all really enjoy… That’s Dumb charades… I’m almost sure it would make a worthy competition with hockey in the contest for our National game!