The football is a roundish object, or, as Wikipedia describes it, an “oblong spheroid.” Round balls suffice for most every other sport, but not this one. Likewise, this sport only ever really caught on in the United States for some reason. The game is called football, but it mostly involves the hands, and also a lot of derision from soccer fans. You’ve recently learned that the term “gridiron” has something to do with the sport, though you’ve spent most of your life thinking it was some sort of prison metaphor. The Super Bowl is the biggest event in football, kind…
Author: Alanna Weissman
Alanna Weissman
Alanna Weissman is a writer, reporter and copy editor from New York City. Her work across genres has appeared in the New York Times, San Francisco Chronicle, Guardian US, Mic, Salon, Points in Case, Crack the Spine and elsewhere.