People have grown accustomed to seeing the filthy rich featured in some high-profile but exclusive sports activities – polo, equestrienne, yachting, golf, F1 racing, croquet, lacrosse, horse racing, and sailing, to name some. Over the years, some of the exclusive-for-the-rich sports have gotten more accessible by “commoners” but they are still thriving in their all-exclusive mode. The sports of the filthy rich hold a certain allure despite their seemingly outrageous costs.
- Polo. Regarded as the Godfather of rich people’s sports. It’s insanely expensive and has countless logistical barriers to entry. Polo matches take place in Santa Barbara, Aspen, or the Pampas of Argentina. These are where the best of the sports reside.
- Sailing. This particular sport is popular among the rich people because it requires a ton of money and free time. Anyone hoping to find a bunch of rich white guys doing all the pulling up of sails or staring into the sunset, is mesmerized by this hard-to-understand kind of sports.
- Equestrienne or Riding. For the filthy rich, riding means “riding horses”. Any sport that requires buying and caring for a horse cannot be cheap. Equestrienne is one in the long list of rich people’s sports that is dangerous. Imagine being tossed by the wild animal with your expensive boots on. How’s that for sports?
- Lacrosse. This is a get-away rich person sport that is not entirely exclusive. While considered a rich man’s sport, lacrosse doesn’t have anything inherently “rich” about it except for its origins at Catholic prep schools in the mid-Atlantic states. For some reason, it is the official sport of entitled white kids who don’t want to be thought of as entitled kids.
- Golf. One of the most expensive sports for obvious reasons – expensive good clubs, golf course membership, flying expenses to be in the finest golf courses in the world, and the exorbitant bag fees for the golf clubs when flying, unless you charter a plane.
- Croquet. This is a traditional pastime of the rich people – the upper crust, who enjoy the feel of sunshine on their face, the smell of fresh-cut grass, and the whack of a croquet mallet sending a ball through a wicket. This backyard game often happens in exclusive country clubs.
- Horse Racing. It’s called the Sport of Kings for a reason – it used to be that only a king can afford to participate in a sport of elves riding on beasts. For one day every year, Kentucky is made to look like the height of nobility with all those high-breed stallions.
- Yacht Racing. Rich people do have a flair for obsolete forms of racing. They take excitement on a big ship trying to go fast without ending up like the Titanic. Do the rich people love boring sports like this?
- F1 racing. Not everyone can afford the high maintenance cost of this sport. Only those with pockets full of money – race cars, regular training costs, going from places to places. All these need tons of money to support the sport.
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