The 20 Alabamas in Alabama anaology is brilliant. Been watching EPL for about 5 years and I never really thought about how many top flight teams are squeezed into limited real estate. It explains a lot actually. And contrasts. Enjoy these days, they go waaaaaaay faster than you can imagine. She'll be asking for the car keys before you know it!
glad the young one came through healthy and happy! and genuinely great explainer dude!
just adding in here because you nodded at it with the "technically," - and maybe you're going to hit all of this in the Football Pyramid breakdown - but yeah, any time commentators (esp on NBC) talk about "Premier League records" take it with a huge grain of salt y'all.
the "Premier League" is a) not in any significant way different to the former "Football League First Division" and b) was created so that the clubs could seize lucrative TV money without sharing it with the rest of England's football pyramid [a system unique to England, which is part of why it has become the richest league in the world while Serie A and La Liga struggle to compete outside the top clubs]. It's also why promotion and relegation is such a GIGANTIC deal in England, in ways that will definitely be in the pyramid chat.
this generally annoys me cuz the propaganda machine on NBC say that Manchester United have the most "Premier League" titles with 13, but Liverpool have won the first division (including the Premier League, which they kept saying we'd "never won" lol) 19 times, just one behind the Red Devils (Manchester United).
as I likely will often note in these comments... capitalism is dumb and invents new stuff to replace stuff that was just fine and should have been left alone
Call her by her endearing fatherly nickname, by all means. But be prepared for the day -- and that day may never come -- when she very sternly tells you, "My name is not (endearing fatherly nickname), my name is (name everyone else calls her)." For me, it happened right around four years old, and A: it broke my heart more than a little; and B: five years later I still occasionally slip up and she just flat yells at me now.
Also, a (football) topic that messed with me at the beginning: transfers. They're not trades; teams don't (or very rarely) trade players with one another, and players over there seem to have a lot more leverage in forcing transfers (even with four or five remaining years on their contract) than players here have in forcing trades (See: Grealish, Jack).
Oh, and contracts are reported in terms of weekly wages. Which I wish American sports would do, because it really drives home how absurdly much money they make. $25 million is a number I can't comprehend, but I can (barely) comprehend $200,000, and someone getting that every week is INSANE.
The 20 Alabamas in Alabama anaology is brilliant. Been watching EPL for about 5 years and I never really thought about how many top flight teams are squeezed into limited real estate. It explains a lot actually. And contrasts. Enjoy these days, they go waaaaaaay faster than you can imagine. She'll be asking for the car keys before you know it!
glad the young one came through healthy and happy! and genuinely great explainer dude!
just adding in here because you nodded at it with the "technically," - and maybe you're going to hit all of this in the Football Pyramid breakdown - but yeah, any time commentators (esp on NBC) talk about "Premier League records" take it with a huge grain of salt y'all.
the "Premier League" is a) not in any significant way different to the former "Football League First Division" and b) was created so that the clubs could seize lucrative TV money without sharing it with the rest of England's football pyramid [a system unique to England, which is part of why it has become the richest league in the world while Serie A and La Liga struggle to compete outside the top clubs]. It's also why promotion and relegation is such a GIGANTIC deal in England, in ways that will definitely be in the pyramid chat.
this generally annoys me cuz the propaganda machine on NBC say that Manchester United have the most "Premier League" titles with 13, but Liverpool have won the first division (including the Premier League, which they kept saying we'd "never won" lol) 19 times, just one behind the Red Devils (Manchester United).
as I likely will often note in these comments... capitalism is dumb and invents new stuff to replace stuff that was just fine and should have been left alone
Call her by her endearing fatherly nickname, by all means. But be prepared for the day -- and that day may never come -- when she very sternly tells you, "My name is not (endearing fatherly nickname), my name is (name everyone else calls her)." For me, it happened right around four years old, and A: it broke my heart more than a little; and B: five years later I still occasionally slip up and she just flat yells at me now.
Also, a (football) topic that messed with me at the beginning: transfers. They're not trades; teams don't (or very rarely) trade players with one another, and players over there seem to have a lot more leverage in forcing transfers (even with four or five remaining years on their contract) than players here have in forcing trades (See: Grealish, Jack).
Oh, and contracts are reported in terms of weekly wages. Which I wish American sports would do, because it really drives home how absurdly much money they make. $25 million is a number I can't comprehend, but I can (barely) comprehend $200,000, and someone getting that every week is INSANE.
Congrats on the healthy baby! Prime writing time is about to be 3 AM.