“Some of football's gaudiest displays of manliness are purely aesthetic. It's not what players do, it's how they look doing it.” LooksPlayerFootballAestheticDisplayManliness Author:J. R. Moehringer
“Baseball, boxing, handball - sooner or later every game gets compared to narrative, but only in football are the plays perfectly linear, drawn up with letters, and only in football is the field itself lined like a sheet of notebook paper.” PlayGamesFieldsFootballPaperLettersBaseballNarrativeBoxingSooner Or LaterSheetsNotebookLinearHandball Author:J. R. Moehringer