There are many things about George F. Will–“F” for “Fucking Amazing”–that I, well, that I totally fucking hate!, but there is also one thing that I find totally fucking amusing, and that is that Georgie, in open and explicit opposition to “America”, totally fucking hates fucking football!. George’s latest harange on the evils of America’s…
Tag: football
Stadia Mania! Why the heart hath reasons that Reason knows not of
It’s no stretch to say that “Reason” magazine does not ♥ public funding of sports arenas. You can get a fair sample of Reasonette bile regarding sports arenas here. And I agree: public funding of sports arenas—most egregiously, the fabled NFL franchises—makes no economic sense. Yet it happens, constantly. So it must make some sort…
Football is just an extension of government. Or is it the other way around?
Over at Salon, Steve Kornacki has a nice piece on the endless machinations necessary to decide which college football teams get to become members of the cool conferences and which lose out. If you’ve ever asked yourself why, back in ’94, Texas Tech got into the Big 12, whoever they are, and Rice did not,…