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RE: soccer/futbol (RE: Good flicks?)
On Wed, 9 Aug 2000, Kyle Howe wrote:
> no, not blind violence, its FOCUSED FURY. The application of maximum
> violence during shortest amount of time possible. a thurderstorm as
> compared to soccer's slow drizzle.
ok, whatever - it still looks graceless and messy, though i know grace has
more to do with action and not looks.
> football is also much more of a thinking sport than one gives it
> credit for. you dont' see those soccer players lugging around
> playbooks the size of dictionaries, do you?
it's a moment-sttratgey thinking game. yuo have to understand the
geometry of the field and the physics of the ball. then factor in the
players and all the poosible permutations thereof. complicated. but it
can be played at any number of levels. from the basic runnin' after the
ball blindly, to anticipating three moves ahead and being there for it.
it seems odd to memorize tons of plays. i like the udnerstanding of
something better and the ability to on-the-fly apply something you know in
principle.
> i actually support more use of quick surgical strikes with the
> military aimed at the top (leadership, government seats, etc) , be it
> low level bombing run or special forces. economic sanctions takes too
> long and never works very well. so its like follow the code or die a
> very fast exciting and lonely death.
me too. but i know how impractical that is for the global community at
large for various reasons.
> you've obviously never seen barry sanders run. or a steve young-jerry
> rice connection.
have too - it's why i said it was interspersed with moments of grace.
> if there is a soccer player that can moves like sanders, i will eat my
> cleats.
Mammadou Diallo, Rinaldo, to name a couple... it could get long to compare
mroe than that.
> you can't say that can you? did you play football? i didn't think
> so. so i have to doubt your frame of reference :)
i've played football enough to find out it's a guy's sport. and that i'm
too light. it hurts, and there is no reward. at least with soccer i have a
reward that i can obtain. so call it a cop-out. (: i don't care. i love
it.
rhys
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Not all who wander are lost. JRR Tolkein
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