Chuck Klosterman

Football has that.

Football needs to have an element of violence and of danger, not because the violence is what we like, but the violence changes the meaning of everything else.

So if, as football moves away from this and like moves, you know, they say like, we could play flag football, right?

You know, it would be just as exhilarating to see, you know, Pukunuku or whatever, run a pattern without the idea that he's going to get his head knocked off when the ball comes in or whatever, but it's not the same.

And that's what I think is going to change.

I think the idea is going to that we're going to just completely bifurcate this, where there's going to be people who watch football and people who play football and

And they have no relationship at all.

No interaction whatsoever.

Football players are all going to come from the same places.

The only places in America that say that we're going to stay with this.

This is part of our identity and our culture.

And that makes it perilous.

It makes it precarious, I guess.

The idea that there is this thing that people are supposed to care about, even though it has no meaning to them in a personal, individual way.

See what I'm saying, kind of?

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We're in a very fascinating time to have this specific point.

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We sure are.

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