Futball De Mexico?
I just heard that the NFL has scheduled a game to played in Mexico City. I can't tell you how much I hate this idea. Football to Mexico is a sport played by men in little shorts, with a round ball. AMERICAN football is a game played by giant, oversized men, where they use a ball that is sort of cone shaped and is dirt colored. If the Mexican people want to see football so bad, have the wannabees from NFL Europe or the Arena League come and play there.
Football is American, maybe I'm being selfish, but I want it to stay that way. NFL Europe can be for the rest of the world. If the Barcelona Dragons want to play a game in the streets of Pamplona during the running of the bulls, they have my full support. But if some piece of eurotrash in Norway wants to see Michael Vick (Ron Mexico) evade tacklers, or Peyton Manning throw touchdowns, it has to happen in Atlanta, or Indianapolis, not in Tokyo, Oslo or Mexico City. So sit your ass on your Ikea futon Gunar, and watch Brett Favre throw a touchdown in the frozen tundra of Green Bay!
Major League baseball has these hairbrained ideas alot too. Several years back, the Seattle Mariners played an exhibition game in Tokyo I believe. The field was in such piss poor condition, that Edgar Martinez wound up shredding his knee. He hurt his knee so bad, he was reduced to being a DH the rest of his career. Last year, the Yankees opened their season against the Devil Rays with a 3 game series in Japan. Mike Mussina, Kevin Brown and Jason Giambi all got violently ill and had stomach parasites because of some bad fish they ate while in Japan. People are blaming the cancer Jason Giambi got on his steroid abuse, I blame Japan!
Im glad the Expos no longer play in Montreal and now play in the capital city of the United States. Next we need to get the Blue Jays out of Toronto and move them to Indianapolis or Las Vegas. How can you have a team in the AMERICAN league east play their home games in Canada? Forget about playing games in San Juan, Mexico City and Tokyo. If a player misses the season because of an injury he sustains during a game, that's one thing. But if I hear that Derek Jeter will miss 3 months of the season because he caught the SARS during an exhibition game in Beijing, Im gonna be upset.
We spent a few days in Mexico last year, and it's a beautiful country. The people couldn't be more friendly and welcoming. So I have nothing against the Mexican people. I don't mind if they are fans of the NFL. But just like I don't want a bullfight to take place at Yankees Stadium, I don't want to have Monday Night Football played in Mexico.
And the home, of the brave.....[fade to black]
Football is American, maybe I'm being selfish, but I want it to stay that way. NFL Europe can be for the rest of the world. If the Barcelona Dragons want to play a game in the streets of Pamplona during the running of the bulls, they have my full support. But if some piece of eurotrash in Norway wants to see Michael Vick (Ron Mexico) evade tacklers, or Peyton Manning throw touchdowns, it has to happen in Atlanta, or Indianapolis, not in Tokyo, Oslo or Mexico City. So sit your ass on your Ikea futon Gunar, and watch Brett Favre throw a touchdown in the frozen tundra of Green Bay!
Major League baseball has these hairbrained ideas alot too. Several years back, the Seattle Mariners played an exhibition game in Tokyo I believe. The field was in such piss poor condition, that Edgar Martinez wound up shredding his knee. He hurt his knee so bad, he was reduced to being a DH the rest of his career. Last year, the Yankees opened their season against the Devil Rays with a 3 game series in Japan. Mike Mussina, Kevin Brown and Jason Giambi all got violently ill and had stomach parasites because of some bad fish they ate while in Japan. People are blaming the cancer Jason Giambi got on his steroid abuse, I blame Japan!
Im glad the Expos no longer play in Montreal and now play in the capital city of the United States. Next we need to get the Blue Jays out of Toronto and move them to Indianapolis or Las Vegas. How can you have a team in the AMERICAN league east play their home games in Canada? Forget about playing games in San Juan, Mexico City and Tokyo. If a player misses the season because of an injury he sustains during a game, that's one thing. But if I hear that Derek Jeter will miss 3 months of the season because he caught the SARS during an exhibition game in Beijing, Im gonna be upset.
We spent a few days in Mexico last year, and it's a beautiful country. The people couldn't be more friendly and welcoming. So I have nothing against the Mexican people. I don't mind if they are fans of the NFL. But just like I don't want a bullfight to take place at Yankees Stadium, I don't want to have Monday Night Football played in Mexico.
And the home, of the brave.....[fade to black]
4 Comments:
I think Ikea is from Sweden not Norway. But I agree football in Mexico is a bad idea. They throw bottles of urine at players during soccer matches
Bentley
I don't get it. What's wrong with exposing an American sport to a different country that has exposed so much of their culture to America?
Well because when you spread something around too much, it gets dilluted and weak. I dont want that to happen to baseball or football. I have no problem with them starting their own Mexican football league. I just dont want them watering down the NFL. A while back, an American man went over and won the Sumo Championship in Japan. I think it's disrepectful to Japanese culture. It's demeaning to the rich history of the sport in my opinion. The same way I think Taco Bell and Olive Garden are insulting to Mexican and Italian culture. I believe in keeping things authentic. By allowing other cultures to put their $.02 into something, it taints the purity.
Good explanation.
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