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02/04/2005: "Football"
Super what now?
As of this afternoon, I recognize only one kind of football, and it's played across the Atlantic Ocean.
I care infinitely more about the travails of Sunderland than I do about the Patriots or Eagles.
Today, I went to Nevada Smith's and watched my beloved Black Cats take on Wolverhampton Wanderers, better known as Wolves.
Stephen Elliott put Sunderland ahead in the 12th minute with a cracking goal that unfortunately was answered only 69 seconds later by Wolves' Ki-Hyeon Seol, who you almost certainly do not remember from the South Korean World Cup team of three years ago.
That was all the scoring. 1-1. Sunderland stays in third place, needing one of the top two to earn automatic promotion to the Premier League for next season. Three through six have playoffs to determine the last team promoted. Sunderland was third last year and lost a heartbreaker to Crystal Palace in the playoffs.
Now I discover Lord Cheese's website, featuring videos of several Sunderland goals through the years. He's even got Niall Quinn's beauty against Manchester United in the FA Cup in 1999 -- the first English game I went to see in a bar and the game that sealed my fate as a Sunderland fan.
And with the promotion race on again, who cares about Patriots-Eagles?
Well, you might, and with my 4-6 record in the playoffs, you might be curious to make legal (of course) wagers using the patented Pick Against Spector System (PASS). Fine. I think it's going to be the Patriots in a walk, and since everyone else in the world predicts a final score, I'll say Patriots 31, Eagles 10.
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