I spent a not-inconsiderable amount of time this month explaining to the only vaguely interested that when I said I was watching football and they asked me who I was rooting for, NONE of my answers matched their expectations.
It's not my fault that we're the folks who call what everyone else around the world calls football soccer and that our football, aside from our friends to the Great White North of us, has nothing in common with it.
And yeah, I can get quite excited watching a match that involves sliding tackles, bicycle kicks, and off-side traps that ultimately finishes 0-0 and after extra time the sides resort to penalty kicks to have a winner.
And I have little patience for Americans who usually laugh at PKs while watching US football do even goofier things to create a winner. However, despite what some of them, and I, may think about who has the weirdest sport, we're both wrong. Actually, technically we're all wrong.
Here's the definitive list of 32 Weird Sports from Around the World, more or less.
I still think playing polo with croquet mallets while driving a golf cart should be included on the list somewhere. Preferably sponsored by Jack Daniels or Wild Turkey (because the participants will have to have imbibed in order to compete). Get the guys from ESPN on the horn.
-bill kenny
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