“I can not believe the foolishness I am hearing on this subject. Football is a violent sport which arms our society with a martial class of humans who may be called upon in time of conflict or strife. It also teaches group struggle on a level that is not even achievable by our economic competitors.”
Your entire post was spot on. 90% of my fellow Marines played high school football. There is something about shared suffering, struggle and acomplishment that brings a team or a unit closer together. Your teammates become family. If someone messes with one guy he ends up getting his ass kicked by all. Football has a place in our society. Buzz is just pissed he never had the cojones to play the game.
Man for man, at the individual soldier level, the World War II German army was as good as any in modern times. Germany is a soccer playing country. Maybe we’d have better results here if we scrapped the gridiron game and played more real football like they do in Germany.