Against Football
One Fan's Reluctant Manifesto
Nonfiction, Health & Well Being, Health, Ailments & Diseases, Nervous System & the Brain, Sports, Football, Biography & Memoir
| Author: | Steve Almond | ISBN: | 9781612194165 |
| Publisher: | Melville House | Publication: | August 26, 2014 |
| Imprint: | Melville House | Language: | English |
| Author: | Steve Almond |
| ISBN: | 9781612194165 |
| Publisher: | Melville House |
| Publication: | August 26, 2014 |
| Imprint: | Melville House |
| Language: | English |
**A New York Times Best Seller
“Powerful...an important read." *—Publishers Weekly
New York Times* bestselling author Steve Almond takes on America’s biggest sacred cow: football**
In 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 childhood—run, leap, throw, tackle—into 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 America’s favorite game with such searing candor.
**A New York Times Best Seller
“Powerful...an important read." *—Publishers Weekly
New York Times* bestselling author Steve Almond takes on America’s biggest sacred cow: football**
In 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 childhood—run, leap, throw, tackle—into 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 America’s favorite game with such searing candor.
