There is a football-football joke in here that I'm going to avoid—we get it, there was a split between the sports during the turn of the 20th century and the name stuck with both variants, blah, blah, blah—but let's get to the important stuff: why isn't OBJ playing soccer?Just take a look at his technique, his concentration, as he and Bayern Munich's Xabi Alonso attempt to (sort of) trade sports during OBJ's visit to Germany, with Xabi juggling a football, and OBJ juggling a… football (goddamnit). OBJ even switches feet, rainbows the ball over his head, and makes beautiful contact on the volley that would have made for a better field goal, but still not too far off the mark.There's all kinds of talk in the soccer world about what the U.S. National team would look like if we had the country's top athletes from all sports. While it doesn't make sense for a seven-foot tall NBA forward or a 300 pound lineman to play the beautiful game, it's fair to say that guards (example: soccer-talented Kobe) and wide receivers make perfect sense. The hand-eye (foot) coordination, the athleticism, the speed. And why wouldn't we pool our best athletes into the planet's most popular game? None of this "World" Series and "World" Champions for sports basically only played within our one country.Why would we ever do the disservice of keeping OBJ from playing soccer?Oh yeah. Because he can do that. Maybe football (the 'merican one) was a good idea after all, OBJ.