I love football — its so much fun, its beautiful, its thrilling, - TopicsExpress



          

I love football — its so much fun, its beautiful, its thrilling, its an excuse to drunk-tweet in the mid-afternoon — but it has also become the major theater of American masculine crackup. Its as if were a nation of gentle accountants and customer-service reps whove retained this one venue where we can air-guitar the berserk discourse of a warrior race. Were Klingons, but only on Sundays. The Marines have a strict anti-hazing policy, but we need our fantasy warrior-avatars to be unrestrained and indestructible. We demand that they comply with an increasingly shrill and dehumanizing value set that we communicate by yelling PLAY THROUGH PAIN and THAT GUY IS A SOLDIER and THE TRENCHES and GO TO WAR WITH THESE GUYS and NEVER BACK DOWN. We love coaches who never sleep, stars who live to win, transition graphics that take out the electrical grid in Kandahar. We love pregame flyovers that culminate in actual airstrikes.
Posted on: Fri, 08 Nov 2013 16:40:36 +0000

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