"Beautiful. Violent. American. The N.F.L. at 100."

[mikeot]

Interesting NYT weekend thumb-sucker:

https://www.nytimes.com/2019/12/19/sports/football/nfl-100-violence-american-culture.html

"...the N.F.L. carefully tapped into the American fascination with organizational genius, lionizing the figure of the coach... coaches came to be seen as not just motivational masters, but also as brilliant engineers, moving players around like chess pieces.
The ultimate exemplar is the New England Patriots’ coach, Bill Belichick, whose success seems to confirm the idea that system ultimately trumps talent, and that players — with the important exception of the quarterback — are effectively interchangeable parts."

Mods: maybe in N&V or Media ?

 

[Reverend]

Interesting NYT weekend thumb-sucker:

https://www.nytimes.com/2019/12/19/sports/football/nfl-100-violence-american-culture.html

"...the N.F.L. carefully tapped into the American fascination with organizational genius, lionizing the figure of the coach... coaches came to be seen as not just motivational masters, but also as brilliant engineers, moving players around like chess pieces.
The ultimate exemplar is the New England Patriots’ coach, Bill Belichick, whose success seems to confirm the idea that system ultimately trumps talent, and that players — with the important exception of the quarterback — are effectively interchangeable parts."

Mods: maybe in N&V or Media ?

Nice. Thanks for posting this. It’s fascinating.

The organizational genius of “Do your job,” the code of which people are still trying to crack.

Belichick:

• Dad: coach
• Mom: teacher
• Grew up: Annapolis
• Education: liberal arts: economics

The man is a teacher and nobody can figure out his secret, even though Halberstam told the world with the title of his book, and that’s a guy who would fucking know.

@mabrowndawg once told me to make that an essay years ago and I never did. Whatever, it’s not an essay, it’s a goddamn paragraph.