Having gone through six years of Hogwarts(by reading the 6HP books ofcourse, )I have, I believe to myself, become some sort of an authority of this game called quidditch.
The game, for those of you who couldnt get their hands/eyes on HP, is played with broomsticks. No, this isnt a game designed by bored moms. Since the players are wizards and witches, they use the broomstick to fly. Now back to the game. There are 2 teams. If you disregard one player from either teams, the game is pretty much reduced to I believe a mix of Rugby, American Football, and plain old football. Yes, you add some thing called "budger" too, which kinda want to knock u off ur broomstick.
However, unlike football, each score gives you ten points.
Now regarding the afore disregarded two players... Their job is to find a snitch, a tiny golden ball with wings, and which happily appears at some random time, and whoich flies happily around the "game" arena for no reason, otherthan it was meant to be.
That snitch is worth 150 points, and the game ends when the snitch is "nicked".... so naturally the team that gets the snitch wins..so this game can be reduced to "Get the snitch,bitch", thus making the other players "redundant". Oh for god's sake, tell me any football game where the winning team made 15 points...Impossible I tell you, even with "The Dream Team"(a younger Pele, a dry Maradonna, an untattoed Beckam, and yes Ronaldo, and some others, may be the entire citizenry of Brazil too). But if you factor in a favorable "Hand of God" and some British hooligans on your side of the crowd, then there's a slight "maybe".
I think you can extend it the idea to Cricket too..... Have you seen the Pepsi advt, where the entire team while in-match, crowds around a hole in the ground so that they can get the Pepsi boy to give them some pepsi... Well, just imaging Ganguly and [Aussy Capt] running around the field, searching for that magic hole while the match is going on .... Well you get the picture, right? And the one who finds the hole pretty much wins the game.
So this game is pretty much anti-fair play. Now I dont know if you have noticed, but this game seems to be biased towards Harry Potter, "HTV (Hogwarts TV?)Da Chosen One" Whenever he's in, that side seems to win(bcoz he "spots" and snitches the snitch, and thus ending the game.) It doesnt make any sense why none of the other players are not involved in getting the snitch. I mean it makes more sense that they too actively search for this snitch. After all, Its worth 150 points. I guess only J.K. Rowling can answer this one fundamental question.
On a briter note: Bill Gates is rumored to have asked why every year the number of American students opting for Computer Science is decreasing, . He says he is gearing up to see the new games that the ever increasing number of Physical Education graduates will be bringing up. Well, May be, with Bond-007 like jet packs, Quidditch might become real after all....