Sports Illustrated columnist Steve Rushin, one of the best sportswriters on the planet in my book, wrote in this week's issue about "the end," generally meaning the end of games. "Sports, especially, are all about the end," Rushin concludes.
After talking about buzzer beaters in basketball, walk-offs in baseball and quoting from the Doors' song, The End, Rushin gets around to soccer:
"Soccer surely has the best ending, because the end isn't really the end at all, thanks to the stoppage time added on after 90 minutes of regulation. And who wouldn't want that at the end of life, a fourth official at your bedside, holding an electronic signboard with a lit 7 indicating seven years tacked-on to compensate for all the time-wasting you did in the previous 90?"
Somehow I never thought of it that way, but he makes a good point.
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