Football Quotes

“What happened to quarterbacking is what happened to most of America over the same seventy-five year span. The overall efficiency of society has increased, the result of an ongoing escalation of corporate and technological control. It's difficult to find industries that have not improved both their speed of production and the volume of what they make, and there are innumerable examples of tasks that once took weeks and now take minutes. But because these improvements are happening to everyone simultaneously, they only feel remarkable the first time we benefit from the improvement. As soon as an advancement becomes normal and expected, it can only underperform. The arc of collective progress degrades the individual experience for all involved, turning every disempowered person into an ineffectual component.”
― Chuck Klosterman, Football

“There’s an inescapability to football’s present-day dominance, accepted by everyone. But like horse racing in 1935, the root of that dominance is becoming distant from the lived experience of its fan base. A link still exists, but it’s intangible, imaginative, almost sci-fi. It’s no longer a game many people played in high school, or even a game their fathers played in high school. It’s something your family watched on TV, so you do the same, mostly out of habit.”
― Chuck Klosterman, Football

“football is doomed”
― Chuck Klosterman, Football

“If roughly 6 out of 10 players in the NFL are Black”
― Chuck Klosterman, Football

“Well, there you go," he said without affect, still staring at the screen. "I gave up, but he did not. And that's why he is who he is, and that's why I am who I am.”
― Chuck Klosterman, Football

“I’m sure this must sound insane”
― Chuck Klosterman, Football

“I still need to buy T-shirts that promote the Cotton Bowl”
― Chuck Klosterman, Football

“in the history of humankind”
― Chuck Klosterman, Football

“appear”
― Chuck Klosterman, Football

“During college”
― Chuck Klosterman, Football

“What happened to quarterbacking is what happened to most of America over the same seventy-five-year span. The overall efficiency of society has increased”
― Chuck Klosterman, Football