Against football : one fan's reluctant manifesto /
Steve Almond.
- 1st ed.
- xiii, 178 pages ; 20 cm
I wasn't out cold, but I was out -- A brief and wildly subjective history of football -- A deep and true joy penetrated my being -- You knock my brains out this Sunday and I knock your brains out the next time we meet -- This eager violence of the heart -- "Get money!" on three -- The love song of Richie Incognito -- The blind spot -- Their sons grow suicidally beautiful -- All games aspire to a condition of war -- Bill Simmons draws the line -- Stop being a fan, start being a player.
9781612194158
2014018038
Football--Moral and ethical aspects. Football fans--Attitudes.--United States