Tag: Super Bowl
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Against Football?
With a week to go until the Super Bowl and news headlines filled with stories of saggy balls, this seems like a good time to take a departure from my normal travel blogging and write about an excellent football-related book I read recently. If you don’t live in Boston or Seattle, you probably don’t care about this year’s matchup, so you might as well read this instead. Against Football: One Fan’s Reluctant Manifesto by Steve Almond was recommended to me by, coincidentally, a Seattle friend when I saw him and his wife over the summer on my west coast tour.…
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Super Sunday
Completely unrelated to the fact that I’ve called San Francisco my home for several years now, I’ve been a 49ers fan since I was about 9 years old. At the tail end of the Joe Montana era, I started watching football with my dad and decided that the best team at that time (and all of the 80s) would be my favorite team too. Somehow I was able to weather a devastating playoff loss that resulted in the end of Montana’s career in San Francisco and the end of the Bill Walsh dynasty. Given that my reasons for latching onto…
