Soccer and the intellectual
Monday June 12, 2006
Clever piece up at Slate today by Bryan Curtis, on how soccer has become the favorite sport of American intellectuals. I especially liked this observation: There's also a frisson of underworld glamour in soccer writing. To chronicle the international game...
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Rod Dreher is an editorial columnist for the Dallas Morning News, and author of "Crunchy Cons" (Crown Forum), a nonfiction book about conservatives, most of them religious, whose faith and political convictions sometimes put them at odds with mainstream conservatives. The views expressed in this blog are his own.
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The liberal intellectual fascination with thugs (from "misunderstood" criminals and "folk heroes" like Bonnie & Clyde, to Che, the Panthers and that whatshisname on death row) is one of the species' strangest attributes...>
Well gee. I'm a republican in a blue state and a soccer fan. When my son and I attended a US team exhibition, we even stood in the supporters section and screamed and chanted. It was fun.
The support for soccer in the US doesn't have anything to do faux populism or and attraction to hooliganism as experienced in the UK. In fact, the fans at a soccer game in the US are the tamest most considerate fans you'll meet anywhere. And it is truly a beautiful game.>
Being unaware that this particular sport was somehow partisan, I'm glad that I can bridge that divide and say, Steve, we may not agree on lawyers and judges, but we do on Soccer!>
Steve, read the whole piece. The author was not talking about all US soccer fans, only intellectuals.>
So who's not intellectual around here?>
Hey ... I'll wear by green Celtic shirt, and we'll walk up to your wife and ...>
So, it's "intellectual" to watch a sport that's not been ruined by endless TV hypemeisters, war metaphor obsessed commentators, and also manages to have commercial sponsors within the game, instead of timeouts every two seconds??
Thanks for the compliment!!>
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