There's nothing about soccer that couldn't be said for underwater basket weaving...

(I very rarely make two posts on the same day, but this one is pretty timely.)

NPR's Global Health and Development Correspondent Jason Beaubien remarked in a June 8 story on the 2014 World Cup that "soccer touches some universal chord… It's a simple sport that transcends language, that spans the world in a way that very few other human activities have."

Perhaps, but this demonstrates something more interesting to me than whatever fascination soccer holds for others: We find metaphor and meaning in things we share a passion for, small or large - a schoolyard grudge match or global soccer match, a chess game or a world war.

There's nothing about soccer that couldn't be said for underwater basket weaving if enough people found it a suitable surrogate for aggression and were willing to quarrel over it.

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[2014-06-08]

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