[Vision2020] Massacre on the blue turf

[Tbertruss at aol.com]

Carl:

Football is a metaphor for the struggles in life that we have limited or no 
control over, for the real hopes and dreams that we wish we could manage as 
simply as moving a ball around a field with arms and legs.  We project these 
hopes and dreams into this game, which is a fantasy escape as powerful as those 
induced by opium.  But when the dreams are dashed, when the fantasy does not 
provide us our vicarious fulfillment (oxymoron?), we respond as though real 
dreams in the real world were shattered.  But if the football fantasy is realized, 
though nothing of any real importance has changed, it is as though utopian 
dreams were realized.  Of course they are not really realized in this fashion, 
thus the need for the next victory and the next and so forth, just like an 
addict who needs another fix to keep his dream world going...

Football as a fantasy fulfilling (or not) psychological addiction fueled by 
projection of unfulfilled dreams and hopes into the game's drama...

Does this make any sense?

Ted Moffett
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