*yawn* it's late...
Was chatting with willy__wonka
about the utter lack of interest in football we've got here in the
States, and I remembered this little discussion that was in the ESPN
magazine with Beckham on the cover. (Perhaps I will get around to scanning that one of these days.) Oh. ESPN. How I loathe thee, and
yet I can't let you go...
Tony Korhneiser and Michael Wilbon have a show in which they debate sports related stuff, and every week some of it's printed in the magazine. Today's question:
Tony Kornheiser: Soccer will never matter here. Never. It stinks.
Michael Wilbon: Not never. All my Dad card about was horse racing, boxing, and baseball. Now, two of those sports have all but disappeared. Things Change.
TK: It will never happen We use our hands in America. Sports is why God gave us opposable thumbs. And out culture is ethnocentric. We believe in things we invented.
MW: Now you've got it. And if it didn't work with Pele and Chinaglia over here, it's hard to make the case it will ever flourish.
TK: The World Cup will draw. But a soccer leauge has no chance. It will never budge football, baseball, and basketball.
MW: If somebody said 80 years ago that pro football would be what it is today, you wouldn't have believed it.
TK: I would have said it had a chance, because people love college football.
MW: But our interests evolve.
TK: You can put Beckham on the cover all you want. Tout the World Cup all you want. But in this country, it will never be top three.
MW: You're a bitter man. You hate soccer.
TK: I hate the soccer poets who say I don't like soccer because I don't understand it. I understand it. I just don't like it.
MW: You hate the baseball poets, too.
TK: But I love the game.
Ehhh. *shrugs* I still have hope.
Tony Korhneiser and Michael Wilbon have a show in which they debate sports related stuff, and every week some of it's printed in the magazine. Today's question:
Tony Kornheiser: Soccer will never matter here. Never. It stinks.
Michael Wilbon: Not never. All my Dad card about was horse racing, boxing, and baseball. Now, two of those sports have all but disappeared. Things Change.
TK: It will never happen We use our hands in America. Sports is why God gave us opposable thumbs. And out culture is ethnocentric. We believe in things we invented.
MW: Now you've got it. And if it didn't work with Pele and Chinaglia over here, it's hard to make the case it will ever flourish.
TK: The World Cup will draw. But a soccer leauge has no chance. It will never budge football, baseball, and basketball.
MW: If somebody said 80 years ago that pro football would be what it is today, you wouldn't have believed it.
TK: I would have said it had a chance, because people love college football.
MW: But our interests evolve.
TK: You can put Beckham on the cover all you want. Tout the World Cup all you want. But in this country, it will never be top three.
MW: You're a bitter man. You hate soccer.
TK: I hate the soccer poets who say I don't like soccer because I don't understand it. I understand it. I just don't like it.
MW: You hate the baseball poets, too.
TK: But I love the game.
Ehhh. *shrugs* I still have hope.