21\u00a0 87%\u00a0 26%\u00a0 0mph EEN\u00a0 bar30.00 steady windchill21\u00a0 Imbolc<\/p>\n
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OK.\u00a0 Here’s why I like football.\u00a0 To the best of my knowledge it has no script.\u00a0 That means from time to time unexpected and amazing things happen right before my eyes.\u00a0 Like this Superbowl game.\u00a0 Close down to the last minute, literally.\u00a0 The undergods, as I called them earlier, came through.\u00a0 The overgods, the Patriots, lost in a classic tragic performance, perfect, yet, in the end flawed enough to lose.\u00a0 The moment when momentum changes races my heart.\u00a0 Sudden turn arounds can sink my feelings.\u00a0 Vicarious, yes.\u00a0 But a hell of a lot of fun.<\/p>\n
There is, too, the athletic performances.\u00a0 Even in a loss Randy Moss looks like a ballet dancer.\u00a0 Eli Manning stayed cool.\u00a0 The Giants defense kept it up all game long, pressure pressure pressure on Brady.\u00a0 Then, the intellectual game with co-ordinators for defense and offense, coaches managing the game.\u00a0 This defense against that offense.\u00a0 The game works on many different levels.<\/p>\n
Yes, it is brutal.\u00a0 Even violent.\u00a0 Yes, it produces maimed and sometimes demented athletes at the end of their careers.\u00a0 These are not things to celebrate.\u00a0 Yet, they are products of conscious choices by adults.\u00a0 I hope the\u00a0affect of the high impact, sudden stop violence of the game\u00a0will diminish through better equipment, different rules.\u00a0 I know the disabled players, like disabled persons in every area of life, deserve a decent life.\u00a0<\/p>\n
But for tonight, for this game, it was a super bowl game, one for the history books.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
21\u00a0 87%\u00a0 26%\u00a0 0mph EEN\u00a0 bar30.00 steady windchill21\u00a0 Imbolc \u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 Waning Crescent of the Winter Moon OK.\u00a0 Here’s why I like football.\u00a0 To the best of my knowledge it has no script.\u00a0 That means from time to time unexpected and amazing things happen right before my eyes.\u00a0 Like this Superbowl game.\u00a0 Close down to the … Continue reading Giants Walk the Land Tonight<\/span>