Comments, in Atlantic magazine, from people who’ve stopped watching football.
The Penn State/Jerry Sandusky abuse tragedy made it clear that any reprehensible act can be excused as long as the team is winning…
Baylor [University] wanted a winning football program and part of the cost of that was the victimhood of multiple young women who were students there…
Football has always been a violent, dangerous game that offers boundless prosperity to a highly select few and ruin to many, but fond memories and enjoyment to most…
It’s a bunch of large men assaulting each other in an attempt to cross a line with a ball. I know it’s barbaric, but it’s also very entertaining—like a violent chess match… They essentially trade their physical and mental well-being for pride and large sums of cash…
[I]t is, at its heart, an amoral beast that chews human bodies up and spits them out in pursuit of nothing more or less than the almighty dollar.