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“I do think, as crazy as it sounds, that sports is an addiction and that it should be accorded some of the same supports as any other addiction.”

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Steve Almond

Steve Almond is an American writer known for his distinctive writing style and profound insights into social issues. His works span novels, essays, and poetry, often focusing on themes of family, identity, and moral dilemmas. more

“Even a hundred and fifty years ago, football was popular because it provided a manly spectacle that lots of men needed, after the industrial revolution. We went from a culture that lived out doors and expanded the frontier and fought the Indians to a bunch of guys in offices. So football provided this jolt, a kind of exalted cult of masculinity. And it still does that. Perhaps even more so today.”

Men Years Kind Doe Stills Today Guy Culture Doors Football Revolution Needed Office Hundred Years Ago Bunch Fifty Cult Masculinity Frontiers Exalted Manly Industrial Revolution

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“Football offers us a sanitized spectacle of combat that has a clear resolution, which we need more and more today given our incoherent overseas "wars."”

Needs War Today Given Clear Football Offers Resolution Combat

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“There's an invisible army of woman and men who really don't get why we give so much of ourselves to football. And they need to SPEAK UP.”

Men Needs Giving Speak Football Men And Women Army Invisible

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“Obama said, basically, "I wouldn't let any son of mine play football, though I do watch." And that struck me as remarkable! It's like he's saying, yeah, let some other set of parents or guardians put their boys up for that kind of punishment (and for my amusement). But not mine! It's just abject hypocrisy from a guy who should know better.”

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“Just imagine what would happen if Obama grew a pair and in his last year in office just said, "Forget it. Football is just too violent and too damaging to the economically vulnerable communities in this country. And it normalizes violence and fosters intolerance, etc." I mean: that would be awesome.”

Ifs Years Mean Said Country Happens Would Be Lasts Community Forget Imagine Violence Football Grew Office Violent Vulnerable Etc Pairs Intolerance Last Year Forget It

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“Capitalism doesn't consider morality. It considers profitability.”

Morality Capitalism Profitability

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“Part of what depresses me so much about football is that it's so clearly about exploiting people, most of them poor boys of color, because of what they can do to entertain us, not because we have any genuine concern for them as people.”

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“Football is Lotto for kids from economically vulnerable neighborhoods.”

Kids Football Vulnerable Neighborhood

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