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  • Tee Vee football: one team wins, one team loses -- they tie -- who cares? And why?

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  • Football is a game for trained apes. That, in fact, is what most of the players are -- retarded gorillas wearing helmets and uniforms. The only thing more debased is the surrounding mob of drunken monkeys howling the gorillas on.

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    Edward Abbey (2015). “A Voice Crying in the Wilderness”, p.38, RosettaBooks

  • The function of football, soccer, basketball and other passion-sports in modern industrial society is the transference of boredom, frustration, anger and rage into socially acceptable forms of combat. A temporary substitute for war; for nationalism; identification with something bigger than the self.

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Edward Abbey

  • Born: January 29, 1927
  • Died: March 14, 1989
  • Occupation: Author
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