I'm not much into American football anymore. It was one thing when I could go to Niners games as a season ticket holder every other weekend but I just have a hard time getting enthused about the Seahawks. Probably 'cause they broke my heart too many times when I was a teenager.
I was just back in Baltimore visiting friends for a lovely wedding and watched a Ravens game with them (against my Niners). Good tight game between two poorly-quarterbacked teams. Pah!
I really live for football - English style that is. This Christmas period sees all the teams play four or so games in a ten-day stretch - quite a pace. Somehow there are always critical games and upsets and many years title contenders are either born or exposed as fakes in this period.
So I'm up at my folks' farm for ten out of the twelve days and they have none of the three football channels I subscribe to. Fortunately, I have a DVR at home and I'll have something like 30 games recorded to watch when I get home. It takes the greatest discipline to not read the scores online.
Liverpool is doing well so far, thrashing one contender for the top of the league (Portsmouth) and edging by the worst team in the league (Derby). Today's game was against Manchester City (much improved with Sven at the helm) and the day after New Year's will be a game against Wigan. Win all four and we're back in the hunt to win the league again. Lose even one and it may be all done for the season as we need to pick up points on the top two teams (Man Utd and
Arsenal).
I can hardly wait to get home Wednesday and watch both games.
Posted by artandscience at December 29, 2007 01:03 PM