As a former basketball player for the University of California at Berkeley, who still holds the freshmen rebound record there, I feel that all sports have gone way over the limit in the amount of violence that they ingrain and promote. With the new XFL football team, San Jose Demons, the team's nickname says it all. As I was taught, I was playing to gain a near-maniacal desire to win and to physically punish my opponent in a defeat. And I'm sure that this team will fulfill this to the end. In fact, Ernest Hemingway, who spent much time in Latin America and Spain, said you could eliminate most Latin American wars and their causes by simply banning football and soccer.
War is the ultimate combination of the worship of all the things that they consider their greatest.
See how this competitive sports thing has been the final stages of every great civilization and empire. The ultimate fulfillment of sports is war - destroying the other person's body that your body might live. Sports is war in disguise, so they speak peace while war is in their hearts and they talk peace while they prepare for war - prepare their bodies for war.