The last place you’d expect to find nihilism would be on the gridiron.
Sports matter like hell. Look at all those people in the stands screaming.
Amazingly, though, the money boys seem to have created a small but growing cadre of Raskolnikovs, men who still slink to the games, but hate themselves and the world for making football a pointless putrid emblem of our pointless putrid lives.
“And somebody thinks this all makes sense?… [T]he entire [university football] enterprise has spun out of control,” says a Nietzschean on the sports staff of the Boston Globe. (I quote him in this post’s headline too.)
Sports Nihilism – a new concentration for the Kinetics and Leisure Studies Department.
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UD thanks Andre.
December 15th, 2011 at 7:40PM
Gotta love the Big East commish; San Diego State, Boise State, Houston, SMU, and Central Florida all have “premier academics”.