Sunday, February 11, 2024

Are you ready for some [WAR] FOOTBALL?

Chris Farley (SNL); Chris Serb; Ashley Wells, Sheldon S. Ananda (eds.), Wisdom Quarterly'
Football is a homoerotic pastime for hormonal types preparing for blood through war.

Monday Night Football: Bulls'itters vs. Crownings (SNL)
Larceny Games Sports Gamblin
(Saturday Night Live) This isn't no soccer, it's all-American gridiron. Sportscaster Al Michaels (Darrell Hammond) is unsettled by the commentary coming from his new co-hosts, including:
  • Dan Fouts (Will Ferrell),
  • Dennis Miller (Jimmy Fallon), and
  • Eric Dickerson (Tracy Morgan)
on the NFL's Monday Night Football (#SNL, Season 26, 2000).

"Football is war on a mimic scale," Walter Camp wrote. "[What was] required on the football field is demanded in the service" (Jackson County Historical Society).

War Football: WWI and the Birth of the NFL

American football is more about war preparation than sport or spectacle

The Fix Is In (Brian Tuohy)
(National WWI Museum and Memorial) Streamed live on March 30, 2023: Trading their cleats for boots and game balls for bayonets, many athletes -- amateur, collegiate, and professional -- became players in an entirely new game during the first World War.

To raise the morale of killer servicemen, along with millions of dollars in funding for the U.S. military's war effort, each branch of the U.S. military created competitive football teams.

The Fix Is STILL In
The camaraderie fostered between military players, along with spectator interest in these types of all-star teams, lingered long after the Armistice, leading to the founding of the National Football League in 1920.

Anticipating April’s NFL Draft [simulating an old timey slave market] on the grounds of the National WWI Museum and Memorial, author Chris Serb delivers a timely lecture on the history of America’s favorite pastime, from the [war] front to the [sports] field.
  • For more info about the National WWI Museum and Memorial, visit: theworldwar.org
I only watch to gamble and drink
Detroit Lions vs. Green Bay Packers, Thursday Night Football 9/28, Prime (amazon.com)

Hi, I'm Brian. I write books on sports betting. It's a
scam. The fix is in. They're FBI "Larceny Games."
For that is what the “modern” [WAR] game really was, a rebirth — a return to the artful, open-field ways of running, kicking, and [homo-erotic] ball handling which had characterized American football...when it was evolving out of British soccer and Rugby.

And it is a curious but historical fact that the man most responsible for football’s “red-meat” era...was a most refined and gentlemanly sportsman who admired and exemplified speed and skill far more than brawn and violence: Walter Camp, Yale 1880 (American Heritage).
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