Now
one can die happy if not exactly rest in peace. Pretty soon, the
football fans of FC Barcelona can be buried in Camp Nou, well, not
really 'buried' in the literal sense. The club is building a sepulchre
or commonly known as cemetery with niches, or burial vault referring to
the fancy ones. It will have space for 20,000 earns containing ashes
of ex-footballers and aficionados who, during life, had specifically
expressed their wish to spend their eternity on the grassy land where
their idols had run & tumbled.
Imagine
it becoming a centre for pilgrimage for the families, filing in there
on All Saints' Day, carrying flowers and blue & scarlet coloured
flags, insignia of the football club. When the cemetery completes, it
will be more than certain than ever that football is a religion of the
people, for most Spanish certainly, and the stadiums the temples where
footballers and trainers are saints, and where fans show their reverence
and devotions with stampedes and all sorts of rituals or ceremonies.
Very strong competitor for the traditional cemeteries.
If
the example extends, soon enough we might also see such columbariums
in the houses where the contemporary divinities lived, like Michael
Jackson, or Kim Schmitz, founder of Megaupload and
proprietor of a collection of cars, amongst them a Rolls Royce. Was it
pure coincidence that his Roller displays the matriculated plate: ' God
'?
No comments:
Post a Comment