Musings on Football
Football is the most fantastic sport. If you want to watch it in the background while you do your work, it doesn’t require second to second attention; if you want to pay direct attention to it, the ebb and flow of the match keep you more entertained than a baby with a banjo; and if you want a little of both, that works too.
Naturally, I’m doing a little of both right now. Tonight’s match is of no major importance, so I decided to do some work while I watched. Once in a while I can look up, check where the ball is on the pitch, and resume working with the full comprehension of what’s going on. As far as I can think of, there aren’t really any other sports like that. Not hockey, basketball or American football that’s for sure. Maybe baseball, but you could lose your place in the game pretty easily if you miss an inning or two.
So in my unofficial poll of sports I just thought about in my brain, football is the most versatile. Pretty cool, right?
(Just don’t mention this to any Englishmen, or any Europeans for that matter, because they would be very, very angry I said this. To them, this is a lifestyle and a passion that must be follow down to the second, even if the match does feature your shadow squad with some first-timers in a league round robin stage you’ve already completed. Still, they’re obsessed.)
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