Hey Guys, It's Just a Game

If men want to get out on a football field and get their brains dashed out on a regular basis, that's fine with me, as long as I don't have to pay for their medcial bills.

If only we could keep their warlike behavior in football stadiums....

Hey Guys, It's Just a Game:

"More than half a century ago, Dwight Eisenhower famously said, 'The true mission of American sports is to prepare young men for war.' This is the undeniable downside of sports: the way teamwork, camaraderie and competition can be used to desensitize a population to the horrors of war. And it is particularly part of the sporting DNA of what Americans call football, where games are routinely referred to as 'battles' or 'wars,' and NFL quarterbacks are 'field generals' who throw bullet passes and bombs for the purpose of advancing on enemy territory.

Consider the bellicose posturing of American striker Eddie Johnson at the World Cup, a few days before his team managed to tie the favored Italians in an ugly match featuring three ejections. "