re: Another example of why I don’t understand how football keeps getting elevated in society

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Some people are here to play sports. That's what *they* want to do, and a lot of us want to see it. Academics are not for everyone.

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Sports are beneficial for huge numbers of people, not just those on a pathway to monetizing their athletic ability. I grew up in a rural setting long ago where football was absolutely glorified and emphasized. It wasn’t my favorite sport to play, but I still loved to play it.

Pushing your mind and body to the edge of what it can tolerate taught me a lot that I’ve carried forward in life. It is a brutally violent game, even at high school levels. But it is one of the greatest games ever created and a football team is a brotherhood.