Comments on: This post is not about “football” http://markwbaur.com/2009/11/17/this-post-is-not-about-football/ "Qui, cher monsieur, qui couchera sur le sol pour nous?" Wed, 30 Mar 2011 11:05:28 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.com/ By: Luke http://markwbaur.com/2009/11/17/this-post-is-not-about-football/#comment-43 Wed, 18 Nov 2009 01:12:53 +0000 http://markwbaur.com/?p=515#comment-43 Haha… I re-read it with your comment in mind and felt like I was looking over something completely different. Nicely done! You’re a very good writer.

]]> By: Mark http://markwbaur.com/2009/11/17/this-post-is-not-about-football/#comment-42 Tue, 17 Nov 2009 16:54:31 +0000 http://markwbaur.com/?p=515#comment-42 Thanks, Luke! I also hope that my deeper point is not hidden too much: that expectations we place upon all our endeavors, social or otherwise, mean relatively little if we take for granted a certain “constitutional” essence of the thing in question.

]]> By: Luke http://markwbaur.com/2009/11/17/this-post-is-not-about-football/#comment-41 Tue, 17 Nov 2009 16:23:57 +0000 http://markwbaur.com/?p=515#comment-41 I wholeheartedly agree. Rugby, in my experience, required a fundamental shift in thinking to be effective as a player. Football, as you know, is so rigid it is no wonder why my attempts to play rugby waned, and I never came close to approximating my success as a football player.

Rugby does seem to be more of an art form. Football is linear and calculating, whereas rugby is dynamic and intuitive (as you said). Interesting post.

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