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From Gawker:
Football, a sport steeped in working class history, has now regrettably fallen into the soft, pasty hands of the well-bred citizens of New York. According to a piece published in the New York Times last week, soccer has amassed a following of literary types who find the game "a public display of global cultural literacy."
The article, which comes conveniently and horrifyingly before the month-long World Cup this summer in Rio (perhaps preparing us for what is to come) is full of juicy lines on how white bookish types consider soccer to be the new highbrow pastime. Forget baseball—that shit is for chumps with no n+1 subscriptions or post-graduate degrees.
Bryan Lee, a fan interviewed at Williamsburg's Banter, was particularly informed on his favorite club's history.
"You buy into the history and the tradition, the values of the club," said Bryan Lee, a digital brand strategist who grew up in Southern California and lives in Greenpoint. He showed up in a vintage gray Liverpool away jersey. "Historically, Liverpool has been a blue-collar port city," added Mr. Lee, 24, as thoughtful as if he were delivering his orals at graduate school. "The politics of Liverpool was really sort of anti-Thatcher. It's become the people's club. Those hardworking blue-collar values never really left, even though it's been ushered into the modern era of the club being a global franchise."
It's all true too. Only last week I was speaking to a guy - a creative director at an Ad company who claimed he was a Man City fan. I say 'claimed' because he used to support Chelsea "but they weren't winning enough" so he switched. New York is going to be insufferable after the World Cup when everyone will become an expert.
From Gawker:
Football, a sport steeped in working class history, has now regrettably fallen into the soft, pasty hands of the well-bred citizens of New York. According to a piece published in the New York Times last week, soccer has amassed a following of literary types who find the game "a public display of global cultural literacy."
The article, which comes conveniently and horrifyingly before the month-long World Cup this summer in Rio (perhaps preparing us for what is to come) is full of juicy lines on how white bookish types consider soccer to be the new highbrow pastime. Forget baseball—that shit is for chumps with no n+1 subscriptions or post-graduate degrees.
Bryan Lee, a fan interviewed at Williamsburg's Banter, was particularly informed on his favorite club's history.
"You buy into the history and the tradition, the values of the club," said Bryan Lee, a digital brand strategist who grew up in Southern California and lives in Greenpoint. He showed up in a vintage gray Liverpool away jersey. "Historically, Liverpool has been a blue-collar port city," added Mr. Lee, 24, as thoughtful as if he were delivering his orals at graduate school. "The politics of Liverpool was really sort of anti-Thatcher. It's become the people's club. Those hardworking blue-collar values never really left, even though it's been ushered into the modern era of the club being a global franchise."
It's all true too. Only last week I was speaking to a guy - a creative director at an Ad company who claimed he was a Man City fan. I say 'claimed' because he used to support Chelsea "but they weren't winning enough" so he switched. New York is going to be insufferable after the World Cup when everyone will become an expert.
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