Danielle

“What does it mean that the most popular and unifying form of entertainment in America circa 2014 features giant muscled men, mostly African-American, engaged in a sport that causes many of them to suffer brain damage? What does it mean that our society has transmuted the intuitive physical joys of childhood—run, leap, throw, tackle—into a corporatized form of simulated combat? That a collision sport has become the leading signifier of our institutions of higher learning, and the undisputed champ of our colossal Athletic Industrial Complex?”
― Steve Almond, Against Football: One Fan's Reluctant Manifesto

“Isn't it funny how day by day nothing changes but when you look back, everything is different?”
― C. S. Lewis

“At what point do we admit that the NFL’s true economic function is to channel our desire for athletic heroism into an engine of nihilistic greed?”
― Steve Almond, Against Football: One Fan's Reluctant Manifesto

“It is is better to know one book intimately than a hundred superficially.”
― Donna Tartt, The Secret History