Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2005/03/10
[Author Prev] [Author Next] [Thread Prev] [Thread Next] [Author Index] [Topic Index] [Home] [Search]Well, I *am* an American (born and raised) and all it takes is one trip to a match to be hooked in my opinion. The atmosphere of soccer in Europe is unmatched in my opinion. Want to learn a whole new vocabulary that shouldn't be used in mixed company? go to a game in England! Dave On Thu, 10 Mar 2005 17:45:32 -0600, 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 > > _______________________________________________ > Leica Users Group. > See http://leica-users.org/mailman/listinfo/lug for more information > >