"Almond is dead serious: Supporting a spectacle that causes brain damage is immoral."
--New York Times Book Review
"[Almond] is a very good writer, and his analysis of problems confronting the game today is well done."
--Washington Post
A New York Times Best Seller
“Powerful...an important read." —Publishers Weekly
New York Times bestselling author Steve Almond takes on America’s biggest sacred cow: football
In Against Football, Steve Almond details why, after forty years as a fan, he can no longer watch the game he still loves. Using a synthesis of memoir, reportage, and cultural critique, Almond asks a series of provocative questions:
· Does our addiction to football foster a tolerance for violence, greed, racism, and homophobia?
· What does it mean that our society has transmuted the intuitive physical joys of childhood—run, leap, throw, tackle—into a billion-dollar industry?
· How did a sport that causes brain damage become such an important emblem for our institutions of higher learning?
There has never been a book that exposes the dark underside of America’s favorite game with such searing candor.
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