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THE HUNGER GAMES
To be fair, if not for being a long time Timbers fan that last second goal would have probably broken my soccer spirit too. Luckily my soul has been well trained at being crushed.
I did go to a bar this morning and watched some of the game with other people for the first time, and the one thing that is sort of enjoyable is how tense everything is, like at any moment all of these people are going to spontaneously combust. Other sports cheering seems to be more of a build into a frenzy. Soccer is just boredom and then BOOM! People go nuts. Just...sometimes there is just boredom. Sorry soccer fans. I am trying.
Watch Derrick Rose for 11 minutes ok?
Tell me that doesn't make you more excited for the potential of a human body than anything a soccer guy can do! Granted, he doesn't have knees anymore.
I'm not even an american football fan but remember Barry Sanders?
I mean...jesus! Nelly turned that John Tesh song into a jock jam rap song!?
Derrick Rose: Very quick obviously but if you are looking for high point of human/athletic beauty I would go gymnastics or parkour not bball. (He sure can jump high tho!)
Barry Sanders is Bruce Lee plus Mike Tyson and Baryshnikov. The greatest.
Soccer the Kotaku Review, some choice cuts below.
"Soccer is a twenty-two-player competitive ball game (CBG). Soccer has been in development for two thousand years ..."
"[It] is a game whose simple common-sense-inverting core mechanic has inspired countless emergent mechanical innovations: you can’t touch the ball with your hands. ... with its nonstop play (American football is a real-time / turn-based hybrid strategy game; soccer is a purely real-time action strategy game) and its lack of “specified positions”, is bigger and deeper in the ways its level design manifests itself."
"... That camera angle is no secret; it’s no Big Idea. It is nature: it’s the best way to look at soccer. Since offense and defense change so freely, you can’t have an over-the-shoulder camera angle. That would be disorienting."
"By observing a few flicks of the ball in one direction or another, and a few movements of players here and there, by attempting to predict who's going to pass to whom or who is going to interrupt what plan, your brain experiences approximately the same massage it gets from a minute of a game like Bejeweled."