A few hours before the Washington Redskins consummately humiliated the Buffalo Bills in the 1992 Superbowl, I unfortunately asked a fellow American, an editor who has lived in Paris for ten years, to join a group of men and women for a beer, place a few bets, and watch the game with us live on Canal+. 'Football is a most distasteful sport,' sneered the American expatriate. 'The game has no place in my life.'

LRB 23 April 1992 | PDF Download