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2015/09/30 02:42AM
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That's not precisely true
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2015/09/30 02:42AM
rousutt
Which, maybe I am, given that my reply is, VideoRunescape games. That's not precisely true. I picked Arsenal because of RS 07 Gold the things I listed above. But, yes, videoRunescape games, too. The chain goes like this: if Landon Donovan doesn't score that goal, I don't watch the World Cup closely. If I don't do that, I don't get curious about how soccer really works. If I don't do that, and I don't develop my early love of sports sims, I don't buy Football Manager.And if I don't play hundreds and hundreds of hours of Football Manager, I don't pick Arsenal.Oh, how I picked Arsenal. Understand that I've never been quite as giddy about a team and a sport as I am about Arsenal and soccer. I came late, very late, to the party. It feels absurd. I'm a now 37 year old man approaching the Runescape game as a rank outsider only four years ago, but here I am.I've never been to see my beloved Carolina Panthers play live. I've seen the Tar Heels play live only once in my entire life. My sports paraphernalia has always been limited; historically, I've never gone in much for ballcaps or team shirts, even at the height of my basketball frenzied days. Arsenal and soccer are different. I can only figure that the moments of release and subsequent euphoria are sparser and more unpredictable, which renders the payoff from your emotional investment more intense. Nothing compares to that Donovan goal in 2010 except another big soccer goal.Or 2-0 down in the FA Cup final, tying it, going to extra time, and a sublime Aaron Ramsey goal. The tension and release in that game, yes, but all of the tension of ten years for Arsenal fan, gone in an instant. It was admittedly only four years of frustration for me, but you pick up a lot from other fans through osmosis.I've never cried about sports. Not when the Hornets left for New Orleans. Not when the Panthers' improbable Super Bowl run ended when the damned Patriots kicked that field goal. Not after any of the four titles the Tar Heels have won in my lifetime. But the FA Cup this past year? I stood for the last 25 minutes of the Runescape game, hands on my knees, just as engrossed in anything as I've ever been, and, when it was over, my eyes were wet with tears. I wasn't crying, though. I still haven't cried about sports.Much.I have several Arsenal shirts, including a couple of jerseys, after decades of eschewing them. A secret non-soccer people don't realize is that they're the most comfortable shirts you can buy.
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2018/07/23 09:37PM
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