[knarf]

Permission to reprint in whole or in part is hereby granted, provided the following credit line is used: “Reprinted by permission from Imprimis, a publication of Hillsdale College.”

The article is excellent, but what caught my eye was Teddy's comment about being a man and and an American

It is the missing element in America these days

[knarf]

Wow ... how opportune is THAT ... sitting on top of an NFL thread ... ?

[Dr. Pritchett]

Attributed to General George C. Marshall during WW II: “I want an officer
for a secret and dangerous mission. I want a West Point football player.”

[Alberta's Child]

Interesting perspective, but I’d make the case that there is a huge difference between football as an athletic competition in days gone by and football (professional and college football, but then I repeat myself) as the center of an enormous industry built around the vicarious entertainment of people.

[driftless2]

I've always wondered why football? Why is football America's most popular game? I'm not even much of a football fan anymore, although I played it when younger and used to watch games back to back like everyone else. American football is totally different from the football played around the world called soccer. Much of the game of American football consists of players crashing into other players many times causing considerable physical harm to one or the other players.

My answer is that Americans love that kind of direct action a lot more than other people. The only other people who love American-style football about as much as Americans are Canadians who have their own rules. And the national sport of Canada is hockey which is another rough game where players are allowed to smash into other players. Canadians (although many will hate the comparison) are the foreign people most similar to Americans in temperament. Is our love of football one big difference between Americans and foreigners? Maybe. Direct action, with a bit of occasional skill and trickery, as compared to games with more evasive action mixed with subtlety and skill?

[onedoug]

Athletic competition in HS and college is the left’s worst enemy. Look for a lot more of this to come.

[IbJensen]

There is something strange about the author’s information.

In my copy of Imprimis the luncheon speech delivered at Hillsdale College on 9/9/2013 was given by John J. Miller, Director, Herbert H. Dow II Program in American Journalism.