Questioning ones love of a silly sport where men grab each other in spandex and pads is the basis of a book called "Against Football" by author Steve Almond. Almond pretty much sums up the major critiques of this bizarre collision game that only Americans love and why we care little about the consequences of this brutal game for the future health of the athletes we enjoy every Sunday. Almond goes through the usual damage done to these athletes with various chapters on concussions and lawsuits of former players who can't remember a month ago yet alone their once stellar careers making big bucks throwing and catching a ball.
Almond has gone on to travel to schools and lecture about the over importance of athletic programs at our schools and in his book wonders why parents devote so much money and time into their child's athletics instead of academics. The school athletic complex often rules school boards and the front offices of most of our educational system allocating needed resources more towards students pursing extracurricular activities involving a ball over others involving the brain. 
Without a doubt it is sports that has done the most damage to our nations schools and the usual twentieth ratings of academic excellence compared to the rest of the industrial world. This is a great book examining the power of these rich billionaires that set vales of their franchises yet take a huge segment of tax money from the public to finance their stadiums which they then use to bring in corporate money to this stupid violent event in which they call a game. the hype of the game is no doubt been assisted by the money of these owners who proceed to use their power in business world and the media monopoly to make their product more engraved into the minds of the predominately male public that worships the gridiron. They are too unintelligent to realize they have been duped of their priorities so these multi-millionaires can become billionaire owners of something.
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