2 posts tagged “sports”
I finished The Blind Side this weekend, and the only television I watched was football. The Michigan / Ohio State game was all nickel-and-dime offense (IMHO), and the chapters on how Bill Walsh and the Montana-era 49ers changed football were very instructive. Plus, as much as the television would let me I'd be watching the left tackles to see just how big / strong / fast / atheltic they were.
There's so much richness in the book. Malcolm Gladwell wrote this on his blog...
The degree of difficulty on telling the story of Michael Oher was really really high. Trust me. It was. It was all that I could think of when I was reading the book. And if you don't believe me, just try writing an emotionally moving. full-length account of an essentially pathologically shy, inarticulate teenager.
Thanks to Garth's recommendation, I'm now reading The Wind Up Bird Chronicle. So far it's very different from both the San Francisco Chronicle and the Chronicle of Narnia. Which is good.
So I had done a pretty good job of avoiding the World Cup up until this afternoon, when I grabbed a rare hour on the sofa, and settled in to watch the second half. I had no idea I would be in for some good, old-fashioned American-style football action. (I'd love to know what the heck was said that led to a head in the chest.)
