Klosterman also writes about sports a lot, which is one of the reason why Bill Simmons has him on the BS Report often.
CK, from his new book, on football:
"I don't know what I see when I watch football. It must be something insane, because I should not enjoy it as much as I do. I must be seeing something so personal and so universal that understanding this question would tell me everything I need to know about who I am, and maybe I don't want that to happen. But perhaps it's simply this: Football allows the intellectual part of my brain to evolve, but it allows the emotional part to remain unchanged. It has a liberal cerebellum and a reactionary heart. And this is all I want from everything, all the time, always."
I'm surprised that the generalizations about football here aren't extended to America in general. I've seen that done elsewhere.
ReplyDeleteHe covers that earlier in the essay-talks about how football is said to be a metaphor for this, and that, and the other thing. He calls it mostly bunk, noting that football is constantly changing-new strategies evolving, and strategies to counter the other strategies, etc. It (the NFL) tries to say that nothing ever changes, but really, everything does.
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