tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-13875601.post8712898803738679900..comments2008-02-05T11:20:49.434-05:00PJ Parrishhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13980813858620119772noreply@blogger.comBlogger2125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-13875601.post-69706683512884012492008-02-05T11:20:00.000-05:002008-02-05T11:20:00.000-05:00LOL Mark,<BR/>It has been suggested that the NFL is this country's only acceptable substitute for street fighting, a positive way to channel all that testosterone. Kind of like that cheesy old James Caan movie "Rollerball." <BR/><BR/>If the world ever gets to the point where the only blood spilled is on astroturf, I would be quite okay with that.PJ Parrishhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13980813858620119772noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-13875601.post-14515122163141042012008-02-05T09:34:00.000-05:002008-02-05T09:34:00.000-05:00We really don't speak football in our house. We have much more of a baseball vocabulary: "Some days you win, some days you lose, and some days it rains."<BR/><BR/>My sons told us Saturday that they didn't "get" football, why was everybody so excited about it?<BR/><BR/>I suggested that the NFL and TV have done their best to make it something it's not by showing dramatic clips in Super Slo-Mo, with quick cuts and dramatic music, trying to make a game seem more like mortal combat.<BR/><BR/>If you were, for instance, to intercut scenes from typical NFL coverage with say, The Battle of Helm's Deep from The Lord of the Rings (the second movie), I suspect they would be damn near interchangeable, right down to the ugly guys with even uglier helmets.Mark Terryhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09410424046477699059noreply@blogger.com