when I was growing up “football as war” was such an old meme that “‘football as war’ is a tired metaphor” was getting grey

but all of a second I get it, “you try to capture territory and make repeated advances to more but if repulsed enough you might have to switch to the defensive which you might even be better at”

it’s like how inane pop is so moving when you have a crush, all these things – epic poems and martyrdom cults and ane pop – mean so much more now that history came back and we’re running realtime