Reflections on Football Despair
Just wanted to send out my condolences to the entire nation of Germany, which is current mourning their defeat by Italy in the World Cup semi-final. We probably don't even realize it, but a whole country is grieving right now. At any rate, it was an amazing game, and the German national team played spectacularly. Tough loss. Anyway, I'm again struck by how seriously the rest of the world treats football-soccer. It's astonishing how one game can send an entire country into a frenzy of hysteria and another into collective depression. We don't have any thing close in comparison in the States. Our most rabid sports tendencies don't come close to what they feel in Europe. As awesome as that is, it makes you yearn that this zeal would be redirected toward the Lord.
posted by Kevin C @ 12:03 PM
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just wait till nascar gets hot...yup, nothing comes close to watching cars go around in a circle for five hours....the world wont know what's coming
Oh, I don't know about "redirected" zeal - I'd love for Germany to be MORE zealous for God than football, but I have to say, one of the coolest things I've ever done in Europe involves football (soccer, that is). When I was in the capital city of Albania, they had this huge outdoor screen mounted on a pyramid that was once a monument to a dictator and is now a shopping mall, and the whole city turned out every night to watch whatever the international soccer game was... it was pretty much a carnival/party every night - and a great way to meet people! :) If you spoke Schqip... Anyway, point being, there's something kind of cool about a sport that can unite people... (kind of like Quidditch) and if you believe audio adrenaline, God's yard is big enough to play football in heaven...I wonder if anyone would win...or if we'd just play and not keep score... :)
Point well taken. It would be pretty lame to go to a German soccer match sans zeal. Without the excitement of the crowd, everyone would realize how dumb soccer actually is.
Ouch! That's harsh....
keeping in mind that I'm a New England prep school kid whose school didn't HAVE a football team. soccer and sailing - is there anything else?
(j/k) :)
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