[Leica] Football

[brad at bradbrad.com (brad daly)]

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

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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