CINCINNATI -- Football is essentially vicious, if we're being honest. In both spirit and execution.
The finish to every snap that doesn't result in a score sees one elite athlete slam another forcefully into the ground. The contact comes in the scope of a car collision. And as such, its participants require an energy, an anger, that's partially under control but mostly unhinged. It requires an emotion, even if momentary, that some newcomer to our civilization could far more easily equate to animals than the only mammals capable of rational thought.
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