RE: Wimps!
April 17, 2017 at 1:28 pm
(This post was last modified: April 17, 2017 at 1:32 pm by Faith No More.)
(April 17, 2017 at 12:34 pm)Alex K Wrote: I was employing slight hyperbole to communicate tbe greater truth that american football is slow.
Yeah, as a rare American that actually played competitive soccer/football as a kid, I got that. I just thought it was humorous to point out your "slight" hyperbole.
(April 17, 2017 at 12:02 pm)Thumpalumpacus Wrote: But, you don't know awesome until you've stopped a running back who was fool enough to cut back to your side of the line and you get to lower the boom on him. That's awesome. Soccer is, at best, humdrum.
Well, I never played American football, but I can tell you that getting in a clean slide-tackle from the side and watching the other guy face-plant is pretty damn satisfying.
Even if the open windows of science at first make us shiver after the cozy indoor warmth of traditional humanizing myths, in the end the fresh air brings vigor, and the great spaces have a splendor of their own - Bertrand Russell
