re: #355 Wendell Zurkowitz ((slave to the waffle light))

Football occupies a special place as a repository of all those Great American Virtues of fair play, the striving for excellence and risking permanent, traumatic damage for the chance at making obscene amounts of money from advertising and labeling…

I think you’re over complicating the matter. These fans just want to be entertained and they think the players playing the game are expendable for their jollies hence why Trump has mocked player safety efforts and why they see them as dumb jocks.