Reply to thread

Message: <blockquote data-quote="Ymate" data-source="post: 7844500" data-attributes="member: 282257">In the main, though, the dramatic question is the overriding one.  Maradona’s goal versus England in 1986, scored with his hand, is legendary.  Had there been technology available to judge this moment, a whole host of narrative intrigue that went on for weeks is obliterated.  To be sure, England’s players probably would tell me to stuff my drama directly up my ass, and perhaps I should.  But all my stuffing wouldn’t take away the fact that at least four of them had let the same Maradona skip past them in the same contest. This last point is also very important.  No sporting event of any length comes down to one moment.  There are hundreds of disasters waiting to happen to either side in a contest, and no one moment is deciding.  To be sure, they may be evenly matched except for that one moment, but more often than not, one moment of scandal is counterbalanced by nine or ten moments of just poor performance.  Fortune plays a part in conflict; Fortune plays a part in life.  If one could say that there is any kind of spiritual dimension to sport, it is that humans are subject to luck, to strokes of things beyond their control.  Many things happen in life that are beyond folks’ control, and sports are no different.  The wisdom of letting go, of letting moments of ill favor happen in order to transcend them, is a wisdom as old as human’s relationships with gods.  The HawkEye machine knows no such wisdom; it knows only in or out.[YOUTUBE]<object width="480" height="385"><param name="movie" value="http://www.youtube.com/v/u0zjx4MAHzk&hl=en_US&fs=1"></param><param name="allowFullScreen" value="true"></param><param name="allowscriptaccess" value="always"></param><embed src="http://www.youtube.com/v/u0zjx4MAHzk&hl=en_US&fs=1" type="application/x-shockwave-flash" allowscriptaccess="always" allowfullscreen="true" width="480" height="385"></embed></object>[/YOUTUBE]<img src="http://www.bbc.co.uk/radio1/chrismoyles/worldcup/scandals/2.jpg" alt="" class="fr-fic fr-dii fr-draggable " style="" /><img src="http://runningdownhill.files.wordpress.com/2009/10/handofgod.jpg" alt="" class="fr-fic fr-dii fr-draggable " style="" /><img src="http://newsimg.bbc.co.uk/media/images/44512000/jpg/_44512952_shilton_cent_416.jpg" alt="" class="fr-fic fr-dii fr-draggable " style="" />KOHOMADA WADA????</blockquote>

Verification: Dawasata paya keeyak thibeda?

Top Bottom