Football uber Alles, Stoking the Machine 0
The local rag has a breathless gee-whiz story with a banner headline, backed by five-inch high color pictures, on the front page of today’s sports section. The story itself takes up two full inner pages with no ads.
It’s about the prospects of rising senior football gladiators, what kind of years they might have, what their prospects are for this season and for their futures following graduation.
Rising high school seniors.
And later this season there will no doubt be many columns agonizing about how this college football program or that high school football program or this player or that player went so far wrong with some transgression or other.
Not that there could be any relationship, oh no, not at all, move along now, nothing to see here.
