Football in Japan?
Posted on January 5, 2007
I quit smoking (again) for the New Year, but it’s screwed up my sleeping schedule a bit. Although since my sleeping schedule has been pretty odd for the past year, it’s hard to tell. At any rate, I’m up late and surfing the web.
Over at the English language section of Asahi Shimbun, I saw an article on football. The headline was sort of confusing, but mentioned the Rice Bowl in a sports context, so I thought I would take a look. Imagine my surprise when I read the article and found out that not only do they have football in Japan, the Rice Bowl has been played annually since 1947, and since 1984 it has pitted the top college team against the top “X.League company team”, which I’m assuming is a pro-football team.
Imagine doing that here in the U.S. Granted, I’m not a big sports fan, so I probably wouldn’t care one way or another. But imagine the winner of the Super Bowl taking on the ranked college team (BCS is a joke anyway, since it’s not a true playoff IIRC). I would think the college team would lose, but there are some good football teams out there, so who knows.
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