{"id":376,"date":"2006-06-29T09:19:38","date_gmt":"2006-06-29T17:19:38","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/tgdarkly.com\/blog\/?p=360"},"modified":"2006-06-29T09:19:38","modified_gmt":"2006-06-29T17:19:38","slug":"two-kinds-of-football","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/davidopderbeck.com\/tgdarkly\/2006\/06\/29\/two-kinds-of-football\/","title":{"rendered":"Two Kinds of Football"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/prosthesis.blogspot.com\/2006\/06\/soccer-and-meaningless.html\">Prosthesis<\/a> writes about the differing philosophies of soccer and American football.  Hmmm, interesting.  As a Yank living in Europe this summer, it&#8217;s been fun to watch football (er, soccer) instead of American sports.  But I&#8217;m not sure about the whole passing backwards thing.  Soccer players pass backwards to set up plays downfield.  There&#8217;s still a forward-marching telos.  Even in U.S. football, you move backwards a bit sometimes to set up a play, as in a pitch to the fullback, or a left guard pulling behind the line to support a sweep play.<\/p>\n<p>The really interesting comparison is the willingness of soccer teams to <em>play for a tie<\/em>.  But even then, teams accept a tie because a tie results in a point in the standings, whereas a loss equals no points (and three points to the opponent for the win), so the telos still is forward-looking.<\/p>\n<p>Maybe a better place to look is golf, where you have to score <em>lower<\/em> in order to win.  The last shall be first?  And in my case, golf also inculcates the virtue of patience in the face of great suffering.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Prosthesis writes about the differing philosophies of soccer and American football. Hmmm, interesting. As a Yank living in Europe this summer, it&#8217;s been fun to watch football (er, soccer) instead of American sports. But I&#8217;m not sure about the whole passing backwards thing. Soccer players pass backwards to set up plays downfield. There&#8217;s still a [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[14],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-376","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-culture"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p824rZ-64","jetpack-related-posts":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/davidopderbeck.com\/tgdarkly\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/376","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/davidopderbeck.com\/tgdarkly\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/davidopderbeck.com\/tgdarkly\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/davidopderbeck.com\/tgdarkly\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/davidopderbeck.com\/tgdarkly\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=376"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/davidopderbeck.com\/tgdarkly\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/376\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/davidopderbeck.com\/tgdarkly\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=376"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/davidopderbeck.com\/tgdarkly\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=376"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/davidopderbeck.com\/tgdarkly\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=376"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}