LIFESTAMPS ... lifelong lessons: THE COMMENTATOR

I got home from a long fruitful journey today. it was past 8 o’clock in the evening when I put on my television set. I just pushed the power button and walked away. I later passed by my sitting room and noticed that the set was “audio-less” and it was unusual for a program not to have any audio to it. I got closer to the set and was amazed to see that it was the CAF football match between Nigeria and Ivory Coast. Why was it so silent and so dull? A Nigerian football match? It was then I observed what was wrong.

Well, you may not agree with me but those are my reasons for him else how on earth does a match effuse such dry emotions? How?

Few weeks back, I went out of my way to lay my hands on Pro Evolution Soccer (PES) 2011, it’s a computer football game and I have had bad and good times losing matches and scoring wonderful goals. I tell you, without the unrelenting effort of the commentators, that game would have been so boring such that I would wonder how I got to install it in the first place, how much more play it.

The commenting duo Tim Berkley and Jon Champion (I hope I am right) say so much about the match even though they do not mention the players by name but they determine the tempo of the match and to worsen the concept I am brewing…the words they speak are even recorded so they are repeated over time yet they make the whole game a great pleasure.

The Nigerian match got even worse when we lost and the commentator couldnt even differ from my perceived attitude of him. It was as if he was already rehearsing for us to lose, hence his dull nature. The match was not so interesting to me but it was better just watching than listening to that commentator. Gosh! The man wasn’t just it. His middle name could be tagged “Bored”. Period

Now imagine what I am saying just in case you didn’t watch the match. Can you picture how dry the match is? For those who watched, I don’t need to say more.

Imagine again, that you have even read the article and it has blessed you and you have learnt from it and you decide not to say ANYTHING about what you read? Come on, that’s not fun, the blog would look drab and uninviting and worse of all, it will look like you are rehearsing for a match that is gearing up to be lost.

I have a blog (www.lifestamps.blogspot.com) and I believe there are articles contained within that you could benefit from. Please visit and read the articles, though some may be quite lengthy but you would be encouraging me to keep writing and who knows, you may even be doing more.

Do not let lifestamps blog look like the Nigerian match o. Please do not be dry like that commentator either. Whatever you say, liked or not, would be respected.