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Ha! Football truly is so ridiculously complicated that I didn't even try to learn how it works, and still don't fully understand its absurdities. Intuitively, as a child, I suspected that football was over rated based on the apparent reality that it was men running in circles, and then slamming into each other, without any obvious goal. Randomly a ball would be kicked for any reason, maybe. I was 20 years old before I figured out that the basic rules of the game were 4 tries to move the ball 10 yards from the "line of scrimage" before the other team gets an opportunity to do the opposite. With this in mind add umpteen thousand technicalities. More than a decade of elementary school, middle school, high school, video games, Thanksgivings and Super Bowl Sundays, and no one spelled that out for me. Not parents, not uncles, not coaches, not friends. I had to dig through a few books, before picking up some sort of For Dummies/Idiot's Guide book to find something that clearly stated that. 4 hours of TV time, to express one hour of clocked game play, in which almost no actual game playing happens. Bah! May as well watch golf. Oh wait, already do. Yet another awful thing I have to watch at family gatherings. |