Against football: one fan's reluctant manifesto

I wasn't out cold, but I was out --

A brief and wildly subjective history of football --

A deep and true joy penetrated my being --

You knock my brains out this Sunday and I knock your brains out the next time we meet --

This eager violence of the heart --

"Get money!" on three --

The love song of Richie Incognito --

The blind spot --

Their sons grow suicidally beautiful --

All games aspire to a condition of war --

Bill Simmons draws the line --

Stop being a fan, start being a player --

Sudden death : an odd but necessary afterword.