Sorry. I just had to do this. It’s really an excerpt of my previous blog, but this little paragraph in Jim Caple’s commentary deserves a special place of its own. Read it, embellish it and swirl it around in your mind so you can remember it when confronted with footballisms, guaranteed to happen these next few months.
Baseball caps: They are as quintessential, ubiquitous and indispensible an American apparel item as a pair of blue jeans, especially if you’re losing your hair. They are the greatest U.S. export other than democracy, jazz and stifling consumer debt. Travel anywhere in the world and you will see people wearing baseball caps, though unfortunately they occasionally bear Yankees or Red Sox logos (what, do no Belgians root for the Brewers?). They are worn by everyone from rappers to astronauts, from President Obamato Pope Benedict. And what is the first thing football players do at the start of their NFL careers? That’s right — they don a baseball cap on draft day.
Meanwhile, I don’t see anyone wearing football helmets, even on the absolute worst bad hair day imaginable.
Reprinted from Jim Caple’s ESPN.com article, Why Baseball is Better than Football.
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