Football

Last Saturday I got to go to the Cal-Eastern Washington game which started 7-7 and then ended 59-7. Cal is going to be awesome this year and will take USC down on October 3, but enough about that.

Football is a crazy game.

I say this because I went to the Cal game with four Israelis and before the game I was trying to explain how the game works, the rules, the different positions, etc etc and I had no idea how fucking hard it would be. It's kind of like speaking English I guess or the inch system or maybe even Cricket, it's easy if you know it but it makes no goddam sense otherwise.

The fact that there are different players for different times in the game, "downs" and first downs, the limited use of kicking the ball and penalties were all pretty beyond these otherwise perfectly intelligent people.

When we got to the game they yelled and cheered with everyone else but they were pretty much baffled, although they really enjoyed the culture of walking through Berkeley on a gameday and seeing sorority girls blacked out hanging out their windows screaming at 11am.

The other thing that confused them was how much starting and then stopping there is which I had never really considered, making it hard for them to get into the flow of the game.

It's an interesting thing, football is a sport I love and think I understand pretty well, along with Baseball and other fairly American things, to me they seem basic but this made me consider how crazy they really might be.