[ExI] football, the perfect game

William Flynn Wallace foozler83 at gmail.com
Wed Nov 10 21:46:13 UTC 2021


Young men are willing and able to run around on a field, hit, get hit, try
to advance a ball, succeed, fail, create massive numbers of rules which
have to be interpreted by people other than the players, challenge their
decision, which then have to be made by other referees, hurt, get hurt,
attract tens of millions of fans, which if you are highly successful can
pay you tens of millions of dollars a year and get regarded as a cultural
hero for generations.  What could be so wrong about that?  In one theory
they are our gladiators.  Or like the Roman said, our circuses (and what
happened to them?)   bill w
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