TheGovenator's Blog Sun, 19 Aug 2007 02:48:21 GMT No description
Pele should be respected in America A collection of my works:
After browsing through Time Magazine, my perception of Sports
was changed. I always thought Pele, and the rest of Soccer was a
joke. But when I read this paragraph, it amazed me. "Performance
at a high level in any sport is to exceed the ordinary human
scale. But Pele's performance transcended that of the ordinary
star by as much as the star exceeds ordinary performance. He
scored an average of a goal in every international game he
played the equivalent of a baseball player's hitting a home run
in every World Series game over 15 years. Between 1956 and 1974,
Pele scored a total of 1,220 goals not unlike hitting an average
of 70 home runs every year for a decade and a half. How do you
spell Pele G-O-D. He has been known to stop war: both sides in
Nigeria's civil war called a 48-hour cease-fire in 1967 so Pele
could play an exhibition match in the capital of Lagos." I made
a Throwdown a