Tuesday, September 30, 2008

CNN's Living Golf and Dead Football

Waking horribly early, I turn on CNN to check how things are going end of the worldwise.  It turns out there is a show called Living Golf - well, it made me laugh. Also they did something about football - real football, guys. No matter how enthusiastic or informed they may be, Americans cannot talk about 'soccer' convincingly. They probably lack the psychic hinterland of fatigue, irony and suffering.

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  1. Yes, it's very strange watching Americans analyse football.

    They don't get that it's fluid, and seem to think that a football match is composed of deliberate 'plays'.

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  2. Americans cannot talk about 'soccer' convincingly. They probably lack the psychic hinterland of fatigue, irony and suffering.

    Probably for the same reasons we cannot appreciate English cuisine or German poetry or Swedish literature.

    If you just got rid of the goals you'd have a perfect game. It would be all free flowing fluidity, irony and ennui, without the annoying hint of objective, intent or accomplishment.

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