People in North India get accustomed to the beauty of football every second year- once during Football world cup and again during Olympics. (Euro Cup, Africa Cup and America Cup and different clubs are merely names!!)
In movie Vicky Donor, the protagonist is impressing the father of the girl by showing his knowledge of Bengal as the girl's family is from Bengal. Vicky impresses the father by sharing about the song AMOR SHONAR BANGLA, Didi and Guru Dev and then he says that "I also know about Mohan- the one who plays football"!!
Girl's Father- Mohan? You mean Mohan Bagan??! It is a team- its a football team
Vicky- USNE TEAM BANA LI??!!
The particular incident is an indication of the knowledge of the people of the north of this game and what the cricket crazies think about this game of the ball and foot.
There are so many of different games which require completely different set of skills and the beauty quotient is different too.
F1 Racing is captivating to the extent where the connoisseurs get enthralled by the curves and tracks, Lawn Tennis will enrapture you the way game unfolds and the two way movement of the ball looks almost magical sans the grunts, table tennis is the epitome of acrobats and displays beauty at small scale but never on small level, cricket is relatively slow and results are not immediate yet the fun lies in smoothness and the way cleverly game changes sides session by session( or in T20 over by over).
While the games with any sort of equipment like racing, golf, cycling, cricket, football, tennis, hockey and even gully danda requires some rules and a certain adherence to the protocols- no where the sheer humanness of the game come to the fore as in athletics. 100 m race is iconic in every format and the way half of the world knows about B.O.L.T. proves that those 9 or 10 seconds have attention of many years of time.
Yet the sheer skulduggery where you marvel with the beauty and sympathies with the opponent reach almost stratospheric heights while watching football.
I guess humans are basically lazy (proof is the types of machines) and would rather not a know a thing than know a thing, if it really don't bothers them( don't believe me?- I bet more people would know about Woods than about the basic rules of Golf!) so in my opinion traditionally world over more of those games are enjoyed which have got simple rules i.e. 100m race of Olympics and 22 men running after a ball enthralls the psyche of the masses where hunter gatherer society, men were used to chase and hunt in groups!!
So my animal instincts are happy to enjoy- Zidanes passing round figure with millimetric precision Maradonas marauding helpless Englishs and Ronahldinhos swerving kicks!
Game of football you may not have gained the certain no. of eyes hours of mine yet believe me, the beautiful passes and the sheer uncertainty of the next moments keeps me hooked a lot at least during semis and finals of Olympics and World Cups!!
A Northy Cricket Crazy who can watch repeat telecast of any era of cricket match! :)
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