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[Bullajami]

Read it and weep

In its energy and complexity, football captures the spirit of America better than any other cultural creation on this continent, and I don't mean because it features long breaks in which advertisers get to sell beer and treatments for erectile dysfunction. It sits at the intersection of pioneering aggression and impossibly complex strategic planning. It is a collision of Hobbes and Locke; violent, primal force tempered by the most complex set of rules, regulations, procedures and systems ever conceived in an athletic framework.

[kinnipak]

Violent ground acquisition games such as football is in fact a crypto-fascist metaphor for nuclear war.

[Misunderstud]

... football is the quintessential American sport. It's no accident it hasn't really caught on elsewhere ... Soccer is called the beautiful game. But football is chess, played with real pieces that try to knock each other's brains out.

Horses for courses, then.

[mconstab]

Like watching paint dry...