It’s a classic chicken-or-the-egg quandary: are football players born dumb or do they become that way?
New evidence that it’s the latter – for some.
As America gears up for its annual secular national holiday of fascist football and its thinly-veiled but vehemently denied homoeroticism of grown men in tights, crouching and patting each other on the ass and celebrating in an orgy of penis-swaggering dominance, we may do well to remember that all of this violent homoeroticism does not cum without a price. The game is killing its players.
Even sadder are all the injuries and deaths at the high school level, as gullible youth of America try to emulate their heroes in misgiven fantasies of fame, fortune, and free steroids.
Let’s hope faux workingman Bruce Springsteen, while completely whoring himself out this weekend as a cheerleader instead of as the outsider he used to be and that created his career, gives a thought during his Stupidbowl halftime minstrel act to just how this dysfunctional glorification of violent male dominance and militarism is killing its participants. But then again, would fascist America want it any other way?