Sports, men and vulgarity

Men seem to have an affinity for the four letter word. Depending on where you are and the age of the people to whom you're listening, every other word is f*ck. They're not swearing, they just can't put a sentence together without every other word being a f*ck.

It used to be that men would never swear in front of the rose petal ears of women - but get them alone, and the f-bombs and other cuss words fly. (Now, of course, you're just as likely to hear the f-bombs combing from 8 year old girls as 8 year old boys...but there was a time when that didn't happen.

Thus it is with athletes. Get a team of men (and increasingly, it must be admitted) women on the field of play and those f-bombs just come flying. I've never understood why.

*I* swear. If I drop an extremely heavy table on my foot, I'll let loose with an f-bomb, make no mistake. But to use these words in ordinary conversation? No.

There are other things I don't use...vulgarities.

Take for example Steve Elling's article today on the 17 most unforgettable moments at Sawgrass. He had this to say:

That's not all that puckers. Gas begins emanating from player orifices at a frequency so high, only dogs and rabbit-eared Colin Montgomerie can hear it.

Frankly, I doubt that it's true...that the tension of playing golf at such a high
level gives you gas, or wind, as the Brits say.

But even if it is...is it necessary to say so. Couldn't he just say... there palms begin to sweat and the stomach begins to roil? Oh, no...he's got to get in his joke about rabiit-eared Colin Montgomerie, and gas, and the puckering of orifices.

This from a guy who continues to slam Tiger Woods on a regular basis for his vulgarities on the course while playing golf (plenty of f-bombs, throwing of clubs, etc.), yet in a piece read by thousands of people - albeit mostly men, he has to get in this vulgar joke?

Gas is a natural function, and depending on when and where one lets loose with gas, it can be extremely embarrassing, mainly because of writers like Steve Elling who like it to remain embarrassing so they can make jokes about it (and the animators of children's movies who know that a fart joke is a surefire laugh in any audience of little boys.)

http://www.cbssports.com/#!/golf/story/15050628/new-world-order-most-unforgettable-sawgrass-17-moments