Just needed to share this, since it perfectly captures my decade-plus-long ambivalence to football.
“I’ve drifted away from football over the years, partly because it’s such an unforgivable time-suck — a few minutes of action surrounded by oceans of advertising, high-end graphics and idiotic banter – and partly because the whole enterprise seems contaminated in so many ways.”
The rest of the article was quite good – a rumination on what we now know about football and brain damage in honor of Super Bowl Sunday.
