Want a Boring Sport? Don’t Look at the Ice

The running “debate” over hockey has been rather amusing, but Chuck Peri’s remarks [Viewpoint, Dec. 30] are hilarious. Boring sport? Hands down the most boring sport on earth is football, particularly the NFL variety. A rigidly timed, 60-minute game that routinely takes more than three hours to play and somehow manages to squeeze in 10-15 minutes of actual playing time. Up to five whole minutes an hour of actual playing?

Exciting? Fodder for the brain dead is what it is. If you find football exciting, then a coloring book probably is an intellectual challenge, and the pace and near-perpetual motion of hockey (and especially soccer, which both Peri and T.J. Simers, whose closed-mindedness started the whole “debate,” denigrate) may well be far too much to follow. The complete dullness of football goes a long way to explaining Simers’ ability to wax insipid on the subject. Simers, after all, is living proof that there is nothing so empty as a closed mind. And fellow traveler Chuck Peri seems to be in lock step.

KEVIN TURLEY

Valley Glen