Against 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.