The reason football is so popular is that it reenacts the European conquest of the North Anerican continent, that long lived event who’s mythos has burned itself so deeply into the Western psyche.
Not convinced? Notice the highly symbolic number 50 in the center of each field.(Canadian gridirons have been redesigned to feature a large C).
Notice the arrangement of the end zones right where the Atlantic and
Pacific should be.
How about the hotly contested rivalry anually contested between the Cowboys
and the Redskins!!!!!
After territory has been conquered, actual survey teams record the progress
made.
Does this make it right? Well no, but that is why we watch this stpid sport.
Now baseball is a somewaht different story......
The reason football is so popular is that it reenacts the European conquest of the North Anerican continent, that long lived event who’s mythos has burned itself so deeply into the Western psyche.
Not convinced? Notice the highly symbolic number 50 in the center of each field.(Canadian gridirons have been redesigned to feature a large C).
Notice the arrangement of the end zones right where the Atlantic and
Pacific should be.
How about the hotly contested rivalry anually contested between the Cowboys
and the Redskins!!!!!
After territory has been conquered, actual survey teams record the progress
made.
Does this make it right? Well no, but that is why we watch this stpid sport.
Now baseball is a somewaht different story......