David Rosenthal
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There's no way a casual fan can understand all of it.
And yet the ballet, as you say, is mesmerizing to watch.
Collegiate American football just becomes wildly, wildly popular.
Like it is a huge part of the American sports landscape.
Again, very specifically, we're spending a lot of time on the origins of football in college here, but it's so important for understanding the NFL.
This is a American collegiate experience that these elite young men go through this dangerous kind of warlike activity.
So much so that while in the early 1900s, some professional teams do start to pop up around the country.
So these are barnstorming teams that would go around like there's no organized schedule of play.
But they're viewed not only just as second rate to the college game, they're like dirty.
Many people, especially the elite, viewed professional football as actually immoral because it was profaning this thing with money.
The gripe that they had against it was the money.