Tuesday, June 15, 2010

Addenda

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5. Soccer players will sing their national anthems with gusto, unlike the silent, half-hearted don't-really-know-the-words-but-I'll-mouth-something players of other sports.


6. Soccer players will pile on top of each other with every goal, like a bunch of kids who just broke a pinata.

7. Some use mostly their feet, some mostly their heads, some prefer the ground, some the air.

8. When a player launches into the air to try to head-butt a ball into the goal at just the right angle, he is, as Jay described Rocky trying to get out of his harness, "part Chubby Checker, part Fred Astaire."

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