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Football is hardly part of the culture wars.

• tomjen3 9y ago
  Computer games, sci-fi and atheism has/is part of the culture wars (at least on the internets).
• NotSammyHagar 9y ago
  Not today; but I think it will start to happen. Maybe it will be generational too. I love football but it's getting harder to justify the damage it does to the people doing it.
• fullshark 9y ago
  Are you familiar with Colin Kaepernick?
• stevenwoo 9y ago
  My recollection is the book Friday Night Lights lays out the racism and classism at the core of high school football and that's just in Texas and James Michener brought up these sorts of issues of societal opportunity cost/health cost/monetary benefit of the worship of football/basketball (from childhood to the 99% that don't make in pro or even college sports) in "Sports in America" decades ago.
• mmjaa 9y ago
  Of course it is. There is no reason for these antics, if not for the sake of culture.