[Vision2020] Massacre on the blue turf

[Tom Hansen]

Or, as Freud, had said "

 

"Sometimes a cigar is just a cigar."

 

Tom "who hasn't been permitted to be around sharp objects for the past four
years" Hansen

 

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From: vision2020-bounces at moscow.com [mailto:vision2020-bounces at moscow.com]
On Behalf Of Tbertruss at aol.com
Sent: Thursday, September 09, 2004 11:03 PM
To: carlwestberg846 at hotmail.com; vision2020 at moscow.com
Subject: Re: [Vision2020] Massacre on the blue turf

 


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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