Brerah

Oh i had forgotten

To avoid sounding very Americentric or racist, I must start by saying, I AM NOT MAKING FUN OF THE PEOPLE THAT I AM ABOUT TO TALK ABOUT. I don't know exactly what I am doing, but I am not making fun of them.

Tonight we had a flag football game here at Vandy and as I was strolling up to where our team was getting ready, I saw something that really warmed my heart. It was 1 very dark complected (maybe native African?) and 1 middle eastern guy throwing the football around. And it was funny, quite funny. It looked as if fingers were being jammed every time an attempt to catch was made. And it made me laugh really, because I just assume that people know how to throw (generally speaking of course) the football, and then I remember that football is pretty much an American thing. People in England even try to throw the football underhanded like a rugby ball would be thrown. If I were still a betting man, I'd put my black chips on the fact that they would kill me at soccer, hands down, no questions asked if given the chance.

And the best part about all this is that it drew me back to my college years. I would occasionally take this one route from my dorm to the golf course in Norman and I would drive by some international housing and see Chinese people playing basketball. Everyday. They played basketball everyday. And they were awful. Awfully awful, and I am no basketball star by any stretch. But there was so much fun to be had in watching them shoot the ball. Flat palms shoving a ball toward the rim. Stress on rim. They didn't grow up playing basketball, and I didn't grow up playing ping pong. They would probably laugh at me if I were in China, but for now, I laugh. Is that bad?

posted by corbs @ 11:43 PM