College football is here — but what are we really cheering? College football is a moneymaking sham: Everyone is making millions — except the players. College football gives conservatives their own safe space on campus. College football’s inevitable end: Institutions which are supposed to help students realize their intellectual and emotional capacities sponsor an activity directly linked to the opposite. ESPN football analyst Ed Cunningham had a crisis of conscience — then he quit. How watching football helped me understand people who deny climate change: Fans like me are denying science, too.
How America’s pro sports arenas became a battleground for Trump’s culture war. Football is life in Texas — then along came Trump vs. the NFL. The lone Steelers player to come out for the national anthem says it was a “mistake”. Together for what? A protest broad enough to include Jerry Fucking Jones could charitably be described as absurd, but in retrospect it could hardly have been otherwise. Is politics killing the NFL? How we can get partisan politics out of football.
“It’s two different games”: Why college football is more fun than the NFL.
