num_pages: 178
description: A New York Times Best SellerPowerful...an important read. Publishers WeeklyNew York Times bestselling author Steve Almond takes on Americas biggest sacred cow: footballIn Against Football Steve Almond details why after forty years as a fan he can no longer watch the game he still loves. Using a synthesis of memoir reportage and cultural critique Almond asks a series of provocative questions: Does our addiction to football foster a tolerance for violence greed racism and homophobia? What does it mean that our society has transmuted the intuitive physical joys of childhoodrun leap throw tackleinto a billion-dollar industry? How did a sport that causes brain damage become such an important emblem for our institutions of higher learning?There has never been a book that exposes the dark underside of Americas favorite game with such searing candor.
language: English
title: Against Football: One Fan's Reluctant Manifesto
publisher: Melville House