Au contraire, mon frere: "Timbersports" are the one of the very few valid excuses for
television.
Who the hell cares how far or fast some
knuckle-dragging glandular monstrosity can chase a
football? Okay, some people care very much, but there's no good
reason for it. "Timbersports", on the other hand, have some basis in
reality, however shaky it may at times be. These people are doing stuff that's mostly useful, and they're really damn good at it. It's cool. I find it genuinely entertaining. There's a real, deep
visceral appeal to watching
people cut up pieces of wood with dangerous machines.
By the way, I may be wrong, but I seem to recall that those logs are called "
cabers" and they're
Scottish.
Irish sports seem to run to things like
hurling, which is equally pointless but much bloodier.