“What playoff game?” asks Steve Jaeger.
1) Babe Ruth
2) 4 weeks till spring training!
3) I still won’t have to go to Buffalo
4) Ben’s Chili Bowl
5) Diamond sound so much nicer than gridiron
6) You won’t have to watch your childhood heroes like the Rolling Stones sell out at a cheesy half time show
7) People in the stands not screaming “Kill him, kill him!” (except in Philly)
8) There’s always at least one guy willing to put on a sixty pound chicken suit and run around the ball park in ninety degree weather.
9) Willie Mays
10) You can make a grown man tear up with the words Ebbets Field
11) You can’t play toss and fetch with your dog and a football
12) A team can go one hundred years, not win a championship and still look back on it’s glory years.
13) Ted Williams
14) An actual Broadway musical about the Washington Senators
15) Minor League games are a blast
16) Peanuts and Crackerjacks
17) The high hard one
18) Satchel Paige
19) You can have four balls and still walk
20) You get to hear John Fogarty sing Center Field almost every day
21) If you’re in the back seat of a car with a girl and you get to third base that’s really good but if you get a third down I don’t know what the hell you’re talking about.
22) Susan Sarandon was in an iconic baseball movie
23) Ronald Reagan was in an iconic football movie
24) Bob Uecker
25) You can sit in the stands in Cleveland at a baseball game and be happy for a few hours.
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#5 and #7 thats because football is for MEN diamonds are pretty but u give those to a women. We scream kill him because its a PHYSICAL sport in baseball a game lasts 4 hours and its a pitcher and a catcher playing catch the whole time. Its hard being an American knowing we made baseball.
Psh…ballet is better than all of them combined! It’s not recognized as a sport, but that doesn’t mean it lacks any athleticism at all. It takes crap loads of athleticism, but it’s because the dancers don’t show the effort it takes and because it’s considered an art that no one recognizes the amount of effort used to just stand in demi-pointe on two feet.
But hey, I’m glad someone realizes the overratedness of football.
Well said Amber. Unfortunately I don’t have the same geographical access to the performing arts as I once did. Relatively speaking the media coverage of the top level performing artists in the traditional fields such as ballet is woeful. I was privileged to see a lot of the Austalian group, Chunky Move’s early work. It was truly exciting. I was used to the more classical ballet provided by the likes of the national and state ballet companies. Chunky Move were daring to take ballet in new directions in terms of physical performance. Instead of the movement being totally controlled and… Read more »
Ballet? What’s going on here? My post has been taken over by chicks in leg warmers. Ballet? Bolshoi, please….
Steve, this fine arts fan has also represented his country as a javelin thrower, a strong man’s event if ever there was one.
Why is one not permitted to appreciate art AND sport?
That’s the problem with you European sport hooligans, always bringing weapons to sporting events…
Never mess with the spear chucker. He’s always got a point and can cast it with authority.
If you are interested check out some of the Australian AFL Grand Final from last year. American “footballers” tend to look upon our version with awe. What? No pads? No helmets? It’s chaos linked by acts of physical brilliance sometimes bordering on the magical.
Nevertheless I’ll be watching the Super Bowl as usual. And the FA Cup final. Cultural imperialism has it’s good side.
Now there’s a sign of the times Steve.
During the seventies – before I could have my own car – I would travel everywhere accompanied by two almost nine foot spears. Trams or trains. Walked up busy streets in Melbourne with them. Wandered through airports with them clasped in my hand. Stacked them in the corner of my bedroom when I got home. The “worst” thing that ever happened was the odd individual asking me if I’d “caught any” fish.
Imagine doing that today. There would be big individuals pointing guns at me very quickly I suspect.
Many, many years ago while I was traveling in Italy I fell in with a group of Australians who were traveling Europe on a Kon Tiki Tour. We’d meet at the local bar in the evening for drinks. After the first hour and at least two fights it was clear to me I could never keep up with their drinking or fighting abilities and that was just the women….
Oh, dear. Never play with Aussies who use Kon Tiki. Most of them are really only on a beer crawl. It doesn’t matter where.
Australia isn’t actually a country. It’s a state of mind. That way we can take it with us anywhere we go.
Football is physical… ballet is a sport I’ll give u that, but how do u guys risk ur lives as we do in football…
It’s entirely moot Steve. Australian football is so superior to either that you may as well be writing about tiddlywinks.
By the way there are human beings outside the US. Some of them even watch or participate in sports.
Australia’s right next to Germany right? I didn’t know they had their own kind of football. Does it involve dumplings?