Chuck Klosterman

You will not exist.

So football forces people.

Yeah, it's not that someone could get hurt, but it's the physicality.

The physicality demands.

It is too dangerous.

Yes, yes.

Well, okay, yeah.

When I'm using the we that, you know, there's the we like we're here, there's the editorial we, and there's also the kind of the we it's like everybody but us, right?

But I mean, I do think that everything about football seems to run counter from what we are sort of conditioned to see as the enlightened way to view the world.

You know, yet I love football, right?

So does that mean those ideas are actually what I do want?

It's a hard question in some ways because some of the terms in there are not terms you really want to identify with what your desire is.

But there's the conscious desire and then there's the unconscious desire.

And that's the one that matters.

The conscious desire is the person who talks in public.

The unconscious desire is the person who walks away and is like, well, OK, not really, though, you know, and.

I think about that.

Part of the incredible thing of football is that it's just everything that is sort of central to its aesthetics and ethos is so against what you're supposed to feel or want.

That's a specifically interesting case because, okay, as it turns out, when I saw the event happen, it was like, boy, that didn't even seem like he hit the guy that hard.

This can kill a guy.