I do like seeing my non-American footy. Whether it's out in some fresh air, supporting a local club or meeting up with friends for some further afield matches. It's a combination of the event, the social side and the tactics and variables in any game.
I did see the padded shouldered American version in highlights packages when I was younger. A full game can be pretty dull. Particularly the end, when the clock can run down, where in Soccer every last second counts.
"...not having to believe in a thing to be interested in it and not having to explain a thing to appreciate the wonder of it."
My college had a large number of local frats and sororities. During my senior year, they all had to affiliate with national organizations.
I was on the editorial board of the college newspaper that year. Three-fifths of the editorial board approved an editorial calling for the end of Greek-letter organizations altogether. I was one of the two dissenters. I said it would be "throwing out the baby with the bath water."
They asked the board to meet with the frat and sorority members to discuss it. Two of the three editors who voted for it chickened out, so only one person who voted for the editorial to run was present to face a mob of angry frat boys with us two dissenters.
The only character in all of literature who has been described as "badnass" while using the phrase "vile miscreant."
The swing vote was this guy who was going to pledge a frat and then decided no to, so he decided after our initial conversation that he would vote for the editorial. He was kind of flighty.
The only character in all of literature who has been described as "badnass" while using the phrase "vile miscreant."
Loretta Lynn used to do commercials for Crisco vegetable shortening ("Crisco'll do you proud every time!"). Most of them mention that using Crisco in one's pie crust will make it flaky. Since then, I'll describe a flaky person as "flaky as a Crisco crust" or "flaky as Loretta Lynn's pie crust".
The only character in all of literature who has been described as "badnass" while using the phrase "vile miscreant."
My grandmother was a great cook, but when she made apple pie, the crust was always soggy. My mother has always made a good pie crust, but my dad always preferred his mother's soggy version.
The only character in all of literature who has been described as "badnass" while using the phrase "vile miscreant."