Beowulf vs. McMurtry

"The claim that men like seriously to battle one another to some sort of finish is a myth." Or is it? Let's examine the facts: Football is a sport. "It is a sport in which body wreckage is one of the leading conventions." Football is the number one contact sport. When you are young football is fun, or at least it is supposed to be. Running on the damp green grass early Saturday morning, no …

…fight to the finish. Even though war is a fight to death, football is a mental strategy that plays on the more creative mind. In the end of a football game an injured report goes out, likewise, in the end of a war a casualities of war list is produced. If this isn't enough to persuade you to think of football as a crucial game, then I don't think I could ever change your mind.