[Leica] Football

[daniel_ridings at yahoo.se (Daniel Ridings)]

IFK Göteborg for me.

Cricket is a worthy substitute for baseball. In fact, I
find myself liking it more and more all the time. The only
baseball games I get to see over here are re-broadcast
games after the fact. I don't even think they list baseball
or American football (that's where Janet does her thing,
right?) on the sports pages, so I can't even keep up. Last
time I saw a real baseball game was at Busch Stadium with
Bob Gibson pitching, Curt Flood at shortstop, I think and
Ted Simmons catching (I think). I've seen them all, but
don't know if that was the last game.

A home I have a baseball signed by all the Cardinals in the
middle of the 50'ies: Stan the Man, Clete and Ken Boyer. I
take it out now and then and remember. (I didn't meet these
guys, Red S. hunted on one of my relative's land.)

Daniel
http://www.dlridings.com/paw2005

--- brad daly <brad@bradbrad.com> wrote:
> like most americans, i am woefully ignorant of "football"
> (soccer).  i 
> have heard of pele and david beckham, which i realize is
> sort of like 
> saying i'm from mars and have heard of moses and jesus
> christ (in terms 
> of fame).  the grossest extent of any knowledge i have of
> football and 
> its culture is _among the thugs_, whose subjects remind
> me somewhat of 
> the religious fundamentalists we have around here in the
> american 
> south.  i also read a book last year called _brilliant
> orange_, which 
> somehow tried to draw a transcendence between dutch
> football and the 
> dutch landscape; i really didn't get it at all; it was
> really a 
> beautiful description of something i absolutely didn't
> understand.  i 
> bought it solely because the cover was so striking and
> kept it in 
> november while culling for exactly the same reason.
> 
> --brad, more of an american football and baseball fan,
> that is, lover 
> of liturgical sports, which is not to say i understand
> cricket one whit
> 
> --
> brad daly     
> brad@bradbrad.com
> http://www.bradbrad.com
> 
> What Would Bill Hicks Say?
> 
> "What you have to do is enter the fiction of America,
> enter America as 
> fiction. It is, indeed, on this fictive basis that it
> dominates the 
> world."
>       --Jean Baudrillard
> 
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