I put the video up below because it actually plays well if you're a sports fan in general.
I love when people take a stand for what they believe in right or wrong.
Mark Schlereth rants on the NFL calling it the National Hypocrite League in this video and it's
a good one. He makes a one-word reference to soccer around the 30-minute mark, that taken out of
context read, "We're selling videos!
Well what a magnificent display of football. 'Football' isn't a good word for it, especially in
Australia when it puts the game on a par with Rugby and AFL as an artform, because football at its
most virtuosic is so far superior to any other ball game that it should be considered alongside
ballet or jazz rather than alongside these games.
It may seem odd to think about football as comedy when it seems to catalyse suffering so
effectively for a great majority of its fans. After all, in what other major sphere of secular
activity do people return repeatedly to have their hearts battered? Why do footballers at least in
La Gazzetta dello Sport speak so readily of suffering and sacrifice, in terms that are
picked up and incorporated into the way fans talk about their experiences?
Jean Baptiste Point du Sable
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In what very well might become the most unpopular series in SB Nation history and will threaten
SB Nation's association with this blog, I present "Win This Game For a Chicago Historical
Figure".
Add Louis van Gaal to the list of men against "PlayStation football", though you probably knew
that after last year's Champions League knockout against Fiorentina.
Bayern beat Bremen 2-1 in the DFB Pokal yesterday, but it could've been very different with a
better look at Sebastian Proedl's disallowed goal.
