… descriptions of American football, remember: This is the game that dominates this country’s universities:
One thinks of ex-Denver Bronco John Moffitt, who quit [football] midway through this past season not because of a toxic locker room or for fear of concussions, but because playing in the NFL was getting in the way of living a fulfilling life. [Jonathan] Martin’s catalogue [of reasons to leave football] suggests that, whether or not the treatment he received was a stark exception, a workplace where the currency is misplaced bravado and casual cruelty is inseparable from professional football.
And hello? Does anyone think our big football schools, their teams coached by plenty of ex-NFL people, are any different?