Even if NFL neocons' "obese profits" saw some slimming downs in time ahead, how much impact if any that would have on future freedom spread projects like Iraq, Benghazi, Syria, Founding Fathering of ISIS terrorist groups to create civil wars bloodshed/instability in mideast etc?
How the NFL sells (and profits from) the inextricable link between football and war
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- This NFL season’s first slate of Sunday games kicks off on a day of national mourning, but has the league capitalized on U.S. warfare?
Shaun Scott
Friday September 9th, 2016
Fifteen years after the bloodiest day on American soil since the Civil War, we tend to remember Major League Baseball as the sport that did the most to heal the country in the aftermath of 9/11.
After all, it was the New York Yankees who rode a wave of civic resilience to a World Series appearance in the city hit hardest by the terrorist attacks. When the Fall Classic between the Yankees and the Arizona Diamondbacks aired on the Fox Network, American Airlines and United Airlines seized the opportunity. They ran poignant ads to convince viewers that air travel was safe again.
Arizona pitcher Curt Schilling’s belligerent editorial in USA Today captured the spirit of competition that spurred the Diamondbacks to deal the beleaguered city of New York a baseball defeat:
“My thoughts [on 9/11] turned to revenge, retaliation, retribution,” wrote Schilling in seething tones; “I believe our president when he says redemption will be swift and total.”
Our national pastime was most potent when America sought reprisal. Game 7 of the 2001 World Series remains the most watched — and arguably best played — professional baseball game of all time.
[youtube:http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=H9eE7fZSUt8]
But in the campaign for America’s hearts and minds in the post-9/11 period, baseball only won the battle. Football has won the, well, war. A second look at the 2000's — a “history of the present”, in the words of Michel Foucault — shows that football has been more than a sport these last 15 years; it’s been the medium to relay America’s military response to the trauma of terrorism.
https://www.si.com/thecauldron/2016/...otball-warfare
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