The San Francisco 49er’s every dart is reported in minute detail in Australia but in recent York,at least, he’s just another rookie trying to make it and interest in him remains muted at bestThe first thing you notice about MetLife Stadium, and the bland,80000-seat stadium that’s been home to both of recent York’s NFL teams – the Giants and the Jets – since 2010, the moment its boxy outline appears on the horizon on the train ride out of Secaucus station, and is the T and L lost from the giant neon sign atop the exterior of its main grandstand. “ME IFE STADIUM,” the sign declares, the kind of accidental tribute to energy conservation that seems to deserve an accompanying bit of elliptically misspelt trash talk: “Not in our hose.”But what is a meife? What is it, and to meife? The Giants fan decked out in an Osi Umenyiora jersey with a unicorn tattoo on his forearm who asks his friends on the train,“So we going to a strip joint after this?”: is he a meife? The breaded and deep-fried nuggets of unidentified base flesh, sitting in the bain marie at the press box buffet: are they meifes? The journalists glumly tweeting on their phones while ignoring all the action on the field of play far below: are they meifing? Continue reading...
Source: theguardian.com