Football
Klosterman on why the violence is inseparable from the meaning, why the sport resists analytics, and how something this awkward became the American game.
Klosterman treats American football as a cultural object rather than a game, asking why its violence is inseparable from its meaning, why it resists analytics in a way baseball did not, and how a sport this structurally awkward became the country central one. Highly conceptual, and probably the best thing written about the subject.
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Tyler Cowen
An excellent and highly conceptual book about America’s favorite sport. Could this be the best book on (American) football ever?
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