The Icepick emailed this article to Jimcent today. He then forwarded it to me because it summed up pretty much everything that should be said about professional sports these days in the first few paragraphs.

When the average American goes to games, it is rather Pavlovian. We look up at the pretty screen and it says clap and we clap. It says JUMP and we jump. We don’t even pause to ask how high.

Now, if Man U. are the Yankees of the English Premiership, and Arsenal are the Red Sox…which team am I rooting for. Oh, yeah…Arsenal.

If you identify with the first few paragraphs and jump without asking how high, maybe you should go through the steps on page 2 to find an EPL team. Simmons does a very good job narrowing down…though his final choice is less than stellar.

I know it’s not a high scoring game…but at least the players don’t have beer bellys.

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