Lectură de weekend: Tom Junod, cu una din cele mai faine piese de jurnalism sportiv (totuși, a încadra textul într-un singur gen jurnalistic e incorect) apărute în Esquire: [...] That instinct — the instinct to run when you can’t breathe in order to save your team a time-out — is not one often encountered in civilian life. Indeed, it is one encountered almost exclusively in war, in which people’s lives, rather than simply their livelihoods, are at stake. Now, the NFL is replete with military symbolism, not to mention military pretensions. But the reality of injury is what makes it more than fantasy football, more than professional wrestling, more than an action movie, more than a video game played with moving parts who happen to be human. The reality of injury — and the phantasmagoric world of pain — is what makes it, legitimately, a blood sport. And it is what makes Dr. Yates, the Steelers’ team doctor, define his job simply and bluntly: “My job is to protect players from themselves.”
Posted on: Fri, 01 Nov 2013 11:41:50 +0000
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