Tuesday Morning Quarterback
I missed Gregg Easterbrook’s Tuesday Morning Quarterback column at Slate during the last football season. Imagine my joy upon discovering tonight — courtesy of Instapundit — that he’s been hiding over at ESPN all this time, all without a forwarding address. And just when the football season is about to start.
Honestly, I actually don’t watch many football games. Maybe when there’s not much else on TV. I’ll usually watch a playoff game or two, as well as the Superbowl, but that’s generally it. I’ve tended to be more a baseball person, who tries to go out to at least one ball game every year (though I’ve failed at that in the past couple of years). Yes, the Yankees may be in first place right now, but it’s a precarious first place, where the relief pitching goes all pear-shaped far too frequently. Yes, Yankee fans will complain even if their teams wins almost 2 out of 3 games; the World Series trophy is our god-given right.
Anyway, Easterbrook’s columns helped me appreciate football a bit more than I did. Not just a bunch of guys running into each other at full speed, and not just a collection of X’s and O’s on my ancient Mac (I think it was this game, though I’ve long since forgotten even though I spent a lot of hours on it.) But a blend of physical prowess and strategic choice. So, hat tip to Tuesday Morning Quarterback and that warm feeling of finding the column again, so I may learn a bit more. Plus, Easterbrook’s just damn funny.
UPDATE: TMQB is no more!