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Show It's about wasted resources. Football in college today is symptomatic of the affliction infecting the entire body of American society. There is very little fun left in the athletic contest because it has become a pre-professional rat race, grim and dirty. Games are played for the television audience; stars know superior performance will net them places in professional leagues. It's no longer an activity which the entire student body (or even a major portion of it) has direct participation. In short, football (along with basketball) has become a brutal form of entertainment that yearly eats up not only the vitality of thousands of men, but consumes tons of equipment and hours of time. Most of which higher education pays for, in the preliminary stages at least. This in an age where knowledge is the only hope for mankind. Not to blame all of society's ills on collegiate athletics. That dome on the upper end of campus ARE ONLY RENDERED INTO METAPHOR BY A I . is only one blister raised by the fever that is driving our society. Not only is our freewheeling attitude undesirable at this time, our already incredible appetites are being driven to extremes by media-mayhem jaded consumers. More excitement. More sensation. More money. More, more, more. It's been said before, but bears repeating. The public is increasingly dependent on externally provided amusement, role and status. It doesn't or can't provide them from within. The waste is criminal, the trend fatal, the system beyond the control of any man. |