An article on the success of Football Manager (er, Futbol Manager), with a little trenchant observation thrown as as lagniappe:
“Modern sports fans, who spend more and more of their free time consuming sports, ultimately want nothing more than to get away from the stuff. We’d rather watch sports than play sports; we’d rather watch sports on TV than watch sports in person; we’d rather play video-game sports than watch sports in any form. We’d rather follow fantasy teams than real teams. If there were a podcast about dead baseball announcers imagining pie in hell, we’d never listen, but we’d faithfully read some guy’s blog summary.”
I added it to my Instapaper account for a re-read when I got to the “Michael Vick has never been at war with Eastasia” line. Wow.
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