Soccer is an analogue to Mongol-style battue hunt. Coordination and speed over a wide area with a converging attack.
American Football is more like Roman maniple tactics. Consolidated violence, flexibility and force at critical points.
Both are aesthetic and wonderful!
Football is terrible on TV, no one in the world is watching. Sportsball in general is terrible waste of time, unless
1. You really care about a team
2. You understand the minutiae of the game
3. You enjoy seeing elite human specimens in action
The Egyptian and Iranian Football Associations have reportedly informed FIFA that their teams will walk off the pitch immediately if any of their players or staff are subjected to unauthorized LGBTQ-related symbols or displays.
Eating breakfast at a restaurant with my Down syndrome brother Erick this morning and the Mexican waitress says as we’re leaving “Happy Memorial Day” and Erick fires back “they didn’t die for you”