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Nov. 29th, 2007 08:38 am
[personal profile] asterroc
On NPR yesterday, the 8:55am sports-related essay that is the most interesting thing to sports I've ever heard:

"...because watching all the NFL games is as American as waterboarding."

Date: 2007-11-29 09:56 pm (UTC)
From: [identity profile] seekingferret.livejournal.com
It's an eye-catching quote, but that's the gist? That football is unethical but Americans do it anyway? That waterboarding isn't real torture, but only semi-torture, liked by Americans the way Americans love the ritualized, padded violence of football? That simulating drowning is about as much fun as watching football?

Was that Frank Deford who said it?

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