April 15, 2005
WHAT DO YOU THINK HELL IS?:
The Soul of Soccer (Brad Locke, April 15, 2005, AgapePress)
We have our keepers of morality, and we have our uninhibited anarchists. We have our cultists, and we have our universalists. We have our polarizing figures, and we have our unifying figures.But if you want to find the median of the world's morality, you don't really have to look any further than a soccer stadium. Even given its bloody history, international soccer's current troubles are unsettling at the least, spiritually disturbing at the worst. It seems Satan takes a particular joy in the sport's endemic tragedies.
That's just silly--soccer couldn't bring any joy to anyone, not even Satan. Posted by Orrin Judd at April 15, 2005 7:48 PM
Wouldn't Satan be the one making people watch soccer down in the neitherworld?
Posted by: John at April 15, 2005 8:52 PMFootball, er soccer, will be bringing me much joy this Sunday morning at about 8 am CDT as I watch Manchester United take on Newcastle in the FA Cup semi-final.
Afterwards perhaps I'll take a Saul Bellow novel down from the shelves, read and enjoy.
Posted by: Jim in Chicago at April 15, 2005 9:17 PMTo punish them.
Posted by: oj at April 15, 2005 9:17 PMSounds like last night there were more than a few Fenway fans who thought they were at an NBA game or watching Futbol . At this rate, Yankee fans better watch out, or soon they will lose their status as "most obnoxious" to Red Sox fans.
Posted by: Raoul Ortega at April 15, 2005 9:58 PMHey, as long as he's not taking me to the Museum of Modern Art, or whereever those two guys from the other day went on their man-date . . . or to Fenway to hear James Taylor croon to the thugs of Southie.
Posted by: Jim in Chicago at April 15, 2005 10:18 PMAll I know is that whenever there's a soccer match of any consequence (at least to those who consider such things consequential) I've learned it's best not to be sitting anywhere within striking distance of my wife.
Posted by: MB at April 15, 2005 10:32 PMManU 4, Newcastle 1
ManU goals by Van Nist. -- 2, Ronaldo, and Scholes.
They'll play the Arsenal in the FA Cup final next month.
Don't miss it.
Posted by: Jim in Chicago at April 17, 2005 11:45 AM