Japan’s 2022 Word Cup bid video. This is just fucking awesome!
(Source: Engadget)
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The wonderful thing about football. Is how creative it is. And this is why it never caught on in America. You see, in America, the action is deliberately kept short. So that the sponsors could get in as many commercials as possible. And also, so that the players don’t have to.. think for too long. They got instructions from the quarterback, who has, in turn receives them from the offensive coach, so no one has to think for themselves. This is the Dick Cheney version of creativity. Otherwise known as “Doing exactly what you’re told”. So, you get 4 seconds of extremely violent action and then the only genuinely creative activity involved.. A beer commercial. So, American football is played like a series of advertising jingles while soccer is played like jazz.
And while we’re on the subject, why do the Americans insist on calling it soccer, why do they have such a problem in calling it football? It’s a game played with a ball that is stroke with the foot. Hence, foot-ball. You see? Are you following this, America? The clue is in the title. It’s not that difficult. Whereas American football, as they call it. Is a game where an object that is not really a ball at all, it is the wrong shape for a ball.. Is carried around by hand, and occasionally thrown for other people to catch in their.. hands. You see? Only one person in each team is actually allowed to kick the ball and they have to be specially brought on to the field to do it. I suppose in its own way that is a form of creativity. That is a creative use of language to say one thing and meaning something completely different.
- John Cleese
