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"And, at tight end, DARTH VA-A-A-DERRRR!"
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Aug 31, 2006 - 6:36 PM
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Dan Hobgood
(Member)
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I wouldn't call American Football any more stupid than other "physical" sports, like rugby or boxing. Personally, though, I prefer sports that have more technique and finesse involved, like football (soccer), basket or badminton. The American national sports baseball and American Football don't interest me much (if at all).
NP: THE RIVER (Williams)
I've never played organized football, but I think it's exhilarating to watch. This aside, football is a sport that richly rewards advanced strategic thinking and which calls for much attention to detail and organization. Players, to do well, constantly have to be alert and savvy because nearly anything can happen in the blink of an eye.
Dan
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U.S. football is kinetic (if you don't count all the dead time spent between plays), but hollow (at least Canadian football eliminated the fair catch, surely one of the biggest wastes of time in "sports").
It's twenty-two steroid-fed, college-dregree-mill-"educated" bodies crashing into each other.
It's specialized-player hierarchy is a microcosm of stratified society, with different classes of players receiving vastly different degrees of attention and compensation (more than half the players on a team will never even touch the ball in their entire careers. it also means that most of the "athletes" have very limited skills compared to baseball players, all of whom must be able to run, hit, throw and field (not counting the American League, where they don't play real baseball, anyway).
Football is, in short, a tedious exercise in static posturing, larded over with phony metaphors about competition and war. But there are always plenty of suckers out there who'll buy it.
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