DVD Rental for Sport Lovers

For people that don't love sport, and I must count myself among them, the perennial enthusiasm of the seasoned sports fan is a sight to behold.

There's little else any more that would induce the general population to turn out, wave banners, discuss previous and likely future performance with an Aristotelian seriousness and buy pies in such large numbers.

Match after match and season after season, whether they're particular fans of football, rugby, ice hockey, baseball, basketball or darts or some other even more obscure pastime, the glee taken in the game itself remains.

So, if being a sports enthusiast is about the joy of that present moment, the familiar rules of the game being bought to life again in a novel way, what good is DVD rental to sports fans?

There are three primary reasons: one practical and two to do with the films and match DVDs that sports enthusiast can watch.

The practical reason is that sports enthusiast are out and about - watching sport and playing it - and that means that they can appreciate a service which delivers by post and from a long list of pre-selected titles.

There are a number of DVD rental services in the UK but none that cater specifically to sports fanatics.

However, most of the sites such as Lovefilm include a big selection of sports related films.

Finally, since they often tend to be one and the same person, the sports fanatics and the game fan, note that many DVD rental services also have a game rental service.

The importance of a good DVD rental service for the sports fan thus assured we can move on to what these sports enthusiast will actually be watching.

We can all name a few sports related films that have become classics. Look at chariots of fire, for example.

However, there are far more movies that, while they might not be as famous, still have the power to get the heart of any rabid sports enthusiast racing.

Sandra Bullock's Oscar winning performance in The Blind Side is a good recent example. As is the film The Wrestler from the same year.

Ring-based films in general have a good pedigree from Russell Crow in Cinderella Man to Hillary Swank in Million Dollar Baby.

Finally, there are hundreds of DVDs which simply document the matches themselves.

In the UK, where football rules, there seems to be a DVD for every club.