Why is the liberal media parading all these dead, demented former [football] players around? People get dementia and die all the time. You don’t see them parading around dead insurance agents… We don’t need a bunch of benchwarmers trying to smear the game every time some player rapes a woman or beats his kid.
February 9th, 2016 at 3:02PM
Wow, I heard Steve Almond debate someone on the radio on Sunday, and he didn’t go in for anything like that, though the other one offered some of those points in all seriousness. This piece must have been fun and cathartic for him.
February 10th, 2016 at 3:50AM
I have to wonder if the reason the piece was in Salon, is that no one else wanted it. I don’t think the piece works as satire. It’s too heavy handed and clunky. It’s like the author is saying, “Look at me. See how clever I am.”