{"id":6692,"date":"2021-01-20T07:29:46","date_gmt":"2021-01-20T15:29:46","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.nestuccaspitpress.com\/blog\/?p=6692"},"modified":"2021-01-20T07:29:48","modified_gmt":"2021-01-20T15:29:48","slug":"on-missing-howard-cosell-while-watching-an-nfl-playoff-game","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.nestuccaspitpress.com\/blog\/meditations\/on-missing-howard-cosell-while-watching-an-nfl-playoff-game\/","title":{"rendered":"On Missing Howard Cosell While Watching an NFL Playoff Game"},"content":{"rendered":"\n
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Today is the inauguration, but I don’t feel like writing about that or the departing President. It is possible I will never write about him again after this post and that feels like a good thing. As for his followers, they will still remain a subject. I find them much more interesting as a topic.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Today I will write about football and I am writing this in the post-presidency concussion protocol that mysteriously many Americans don’t seem to suffer from.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

So on with the kickoff…<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n

It was early in the game and the cliches were rolling in with regularity and whenever I heard one, I longed for Howard Cosell and his use of \u201cscintillating\u201d to describe a pass reception. Or \u201cmoribund\u201d to describe an offense’s production.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

What I heard:<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Lean on the ground game.<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n

They’ve got to score to win the game.<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Ground and pound.<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n

He’s really good in space.<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n

He has great pocket presence.<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n

They’ve got to establish the running game.<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Defense travels.<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n

He’s got great football IQ.<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n

At least the commentators didn’t say frozen tundra!<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Early second quarter…as the commercials for beer, trucks and crap never seemed to end, I conceived of an existentialist play called Waiting for the Kickoff<\/em>. Here’s the premise: two Trumpians sit on a couch drinking beer, eating a nacho, shooting the shit, while waiting for an NFL playoff game to begin. Endless commercials play during their conversation, which covers topics ranging from Trump (he’s a God), the existence of God (stone cold truth) and the Tooth Fairy (she’s hot and horny).<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Of course, the kickoff never comes but the Trumpians don’t seem to mind or even notice. (Note to self: brush up on Sartre’s play.)<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Late second quarter: I turned it off.<\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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