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Tweet This Post If you’re a football fan, like I am 16 times a year, you might share a special appreciation for a breakaway run. Watch the quarterback hand the ball off to a running back, and watch him shoot like a rocket toward the line, twist and turn, jump and duck, maneuver, fade, feign, and then run [...] Like Dave Johns’ mother, I’d say I’m not much of a honker. That’s partly due to my personality and partly due to the way I learned to drive, which included lessons in defensive driving that emphasized preventing and avoiding collisions instead of just making them noisier. There are situations, however, when honking is very, very underused. [...] Why is there more intelligence on display in a week of football shows than in a year of Baseball Tonight? Easy. Football is several orders of magnitude more complex and intricate than baseball. Not to insult baseball fans – I used to be one as a child, and I still care mildly that “my” team just [...] Well, I recently managed with great pleasure to view on my computer the Redskins/Eagles game that was played in week three, almost a month ago. It had been so long since I’d seen a football game that I hardly remembered what it felt like. But it felt good, and I loved watching my beloved team [...] Two weeks in America, it was good bad and all right, thanks for asking. Here’s what I missed in Israel while I was away: I don’t really know, the country slid a little bid further down the precipice; Scott is moving out because he found an apartment, so the hunt is on for a roommate; my [...] My team is going to the playoffs for the first time since I was a freshman in college (then, as now, I only caught snippets of the games and had to rely on reporting from family and friends in the DC area)! From 1992 until 2005 the Redskins were perennially a middling team, a team [...] For about the first half of my life, I was a a baseball fan (New York Yankees since the mid 1980s). For the second half, I’ve been a football fan (Washington Redskins since the 1991 season). Usually, when someone learns about my taste for football, I’m confronted with a confused gaze and pressed to explain [...] Football is a violent sport, and it attracts people who can tolerate a certain level of violence. Because there’s a serious amount of testosterone in football, anyone who can’t handle getting offended is advised to choose another sport (like basketball). Today, Saint Joe tarnished all of football by wrongly apologizing for calling Cowboys fans ugly. [...] |
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