2/8/2006
Ali R. Forootan, lastkick.com

Already, you are thinking this guy has a kinky side. He is into inter-racial stuff. He can’t see gray, everything to him is black and white. He is going to incite racial violence. He is a black lover. He is a white supremacist. I am non.

I like football, no not the game like you football nuts, but the ball. I like both whites and blacks, when it comes to football. While I adore Brazil’s style of play, I can’t name their current coach. So, I like the football, literally…. very literally.

Take the issue of a football. The official FIFA ball is a black and white sewn leather ball. I really like the black pentagons, but care deeply care for the white ones too. I guess I am into inter-racial stuff after all. I also like the shape, it is so round and global, it kind of resembles me, round every where. But mostly it is the sense of equality that really turns me on. There is no superiority between blacks and whites. They are all shaped, weighed, and treated equally, except for the color off course. And I can bet you that they all get kicked equally in the game.

The black pentagons on the ball set off the whites nicely. They get along so well, you can say they are attached to each other. In fact it is a great example of blacks and whites getting along so well; they make up the entire globe.

There is only one pentagon on the ball that is different, and that is the one with the hole. The hole is kind of important to a football. It can deflate it of its arrogance like a ball that has been kicked around one too many times, or inflate it with pride, like the new ball in the World Cup Championship Finals. But the best part is that no pentagon gets to keep more air pressure than others. It is distributed evenly amongst all of them. You can say that is the ultimate communist equality.

Another thing about the football is that it does not have a religion. It really does not believe in anything, it is given life by being pumped up and anyone can pump it full of air. It accepts it from anyone and anyone can stick a pin into it to deflate it, so no loyalty to anyone.

The ball does well under pressure. But if the pressure is too much it blows up. Then it is tossed out and has no use to anyone. So it is in the interest of all parties to keep the pressure steady and keep it functional. This will prompt us humans to take care of it and keep feeding it air as it needs it. It is the matter of survival and need. In return, it gives us hours of joy.

I wished the world worked like the football; equal amongst all its members, shaped nicely, evenly pressured and rewarded, and run on air, give loads and loads of joy to anyone that is remotely involved with it. Only if….