• Damar Hamlin of the Buffalo Bills suffered a near-fatal hit on January 2.
• The draw of football is so powerful that its participants consider it a bargain, even if it means experiencing lifelong pain.
• Malcolm Gladwell predicted football’s imminent obsolescence, but in 2022, 82 of the top 100 TV shows in America were NFL games.
• The violence of football is an eternal violence, and players accept their fate, painful though it may be.
• Football returns us to a sense of the sacred, with its drama and bonds that come with it.
Published February 12, 2023
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