Ravenwood - 12/16/03 06:00 AM
Remember last year when Terrell Owens pulled out a pen and autographed the football after he had just scored a touchdown? At the time I wondered how far football prima donnas would go to feed their ego. Well, this year Joe Horn paused to make a cell phone call from the end zone, after scoring his second TD for the New Orleans Saints. After the game, Horn was defiant.
"Would I take it back? No, no. I knew exactly what I was doing," Horn said after the game. "And I understand -- I'm quite sure that I'll be fined."
Category: Sports
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The integrity of the game is the constitutive fiction here.
A guy can't parody the emergence of spectacle over form without getting fined. Sad. But it's part of the spectacle.
Stanley Cavell writes that the distance of 90 feet from home to first base is not arbitrary in baseball, but determined to set up ``an eternal recurrent crisis in the structure of the baseball game, eg., at which the run and throw to first take long enough to be followed lucidly, and are often completed within a familiar split second of one another.'' It's found to be better by people who know the game. (_The Claim of Reason_ p.120)
The addition of TV rights changes things; the game expands to include the weekend spectacle. Fines are found to enhance the weekend.
Posted by: Ron Hardin at December 16, 2003 7:35 AMBut that kind of bullshit makes me long for the days when Dick "Night Train" Lane and Jack Tatum played. If Joe Horn had pulled that shit with them on the field he'd find himself gasping for breath from a clothesline across his Adam's Apple the next time down the field.
Posted by: Ralph Gizzip at December 16, 2003 9:11 PM(c) Ravenwood and Associates, 1990 - 2014
