A new weekly column with sport highlights and predictions?
Since Scott seems to like to do everything, I figure this is one he should dive into too. Can you imagine how great a Monday night Football game would be with OSC doing commentary.
The Enemy’s Field Goal is down.
Posted by El JT de Spang (Member # 7742) on :
Here's OSC's response to the question, "Why don't you write a sports book?"
I think it'll tell you your answer:
quote:The chance of my writing about a sports team is nil. Sports teams provided me with most of my most horrible moments in childhood; the cruelest, most selfish people I ever knew in school were the stars of sports teams. I've watched nice kids turn into monsters or victims on the basketball court. My experience is that sports teams turn otherwise civilizable people into arrogant punks OR cringing helots, and all because of relative abilities to do fundamentally useless acts.
It would be completely different if they were playing Trivial Pursuit.
Seriously, I'm not a sports guy. I don't understand team bonding. The closest I've ever come is the cast of a play. I couldn't write about sports teams because obviously I have missed everything significant about them. It remains a hole in my understanding of human experience that I haven't the slightest intention of filling.