The Penn State scandal stirred up lots of laments about the disappearing “honor” in football, but The Daily Beast’s Peter Beinart says football fans should stop kidding themselves. “To be a fan of a brutal sport like football is to put your moral faculties on hold. It is to hero-worship players while considering them disposable as human beings.” Coaches and fans are indifferent toward the life-altering injuries players sustain as a regular part of the game, and it colors the entire sport with callousness. “They say that if senators’ sons went off to war, American foreign policy would look very different. I suspect that if senators’ sons played Division I and professional football, the NCAA and NFL would look very different as well.”
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