The NFL Is A Political Weapon (w/ Dave Zirin)
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Football Is an Adolescent Idea of What War Is
Football was seen as a way, through violence, to birth people into a kind of americana. The very game itself is an adolescence idea of what war is. In football, the object is for the quarterback, otherwise known as the field general, to be on a target with his aereal assault. With short bullet passes and long bombs, he marches his troops into enemy territory,. balancing this aerial assault with a sustained ground attack.
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