The days in Boston 2

Last weekend we were in New York to celebrate the Lunar New Year, we went to Chinatown with June, Florence, Tina, Franklin, Shan, Louie and me. We cheered for Shan who has passed all the papers and become AIA registered architect. After the dinner, we stayed at Grace place. We talked many things and I asked Louie about American football. New England team has excellent performance in the current league. Last week there is a Home game in New Hampshire. The chilled weather had never stopped those American fans to support their team. They are so crazy about this game. At first I have no idea and I wonder why such a popular game is being so introverted (only popular in US). As far as I know, this ball game has the highest degree of diversity of labor, even higher than Baseball. Every team has two separate sub-teams (defense team and offense team). They are separate and play alternatively in the game. That means some players will play the defense team and some play the offense team. They have very specific role in the team. Some are strong and their role is to block the runner. Some are slim but fast and their role is to grab the ball and rush to the baseline. They have many plans and all players should follow specifically the coach instruction. It is highly strategy-based game. Different from soccer, team effort and individual expression take equivalent weights. Team effort makes the play successful while individual expression makes the game visually pleasing. Most often individual performance would dominate team strategy. This is the romance of soccer. I can feel that the football players are indeed quite bored as individual expression is being suppressed.