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A New York Times Best Seller?Powerful...an important read." ?Publishers WeeklyNew York Times bestselling author Steve Almond takes on America?s biggest sacred cow: footballIn 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.