Crush them like crackers
One focus I want to make my blog is probably sports. To me, sports is synonymous with the phrase “Football”. Okay, I’m only bullshitting. I have been getting into sports much more these past few years than I ever have. I wound up subscribing to Sports Illustrated all of a sudden. American football is an entertaining sport. I had a conversation with a random towney bar patron. It was during the time of the Euro Cup I was wearing my Germany team-soccer jersey when he shouted at me and told me the Netherlands would win it all. We got into the mechanics and entertainment between soccer and football. By George, he was right. Not that the Netherlands would win, but that American football is a far more interesting sport than soccer. He boiled it down to that fact that the strategy and play is predetermined before the ball is even snapped. Sure there is some strategy to soccer, but falls way short of the team-effort of an American football team. I would entertain this thought a bit longer, but I am sure some friends of mine would whole-heartedly disagree with me.
Right now I am looking forward to the NFL regular season. The Green Bay Packers are looking questionable, and not because Brett Favre isn’t under center. The defense is really in trouble. I had previously wrote in disgust that they tried “bribing” Favreback in retirement, but it turned out that things weren’t being handled that way. Speaking of Favre, I actually read an interesting quote on the front of USAToday, refering to Hilary Clinton.
“Sometimes dealing with the Clintons is like dealing with Brett Favre, They’re very good players and they’ve got a great record, but sometimes you’re not sure what they really want.” - Leon Panetta, Clinton’s former White House chief of staff
Funny. I will have to make a post about politics later!
But due to that level of strategic micromanagement, there is no creativity in the game of American Football, no flair. With American Football you don’t have clubs, you have franchises. It’s far too commercial and capitalistic; there isn’t any sense of community like you get with football teams here. I think it’s what you grew up with in the end, anyway.
The blog is looking good Wes, best of luck with it.
Old Albion
26 Aug 08 at 8:29 pm
Really, I was getting down to how the game is played, but you are right when it comes to clubs and franchises, something that can be appreciated. I feel like there is a sense of community, but I wouldn’t know what the Europe alternative is like. I can say that I can take pride in the fact that the Green Bay Packers are completely different to every other team in the NFL in the fact they are actually owned by the community of fans and not by an owner. Of course, the NFL is a bad example to begin with as alot of people put their fan support towards College and High School football. However, it really does boil down to what we grew up with.
Westley
28 Aug 08 at 12:17 pm