Stop me if you’ve heard this one before. You are reading an article about why people play sports, and suddenly the topic turns strange. Athletes become warriors, and games become “battles.” … So football is like war because they have a line, and they wear helmets. Yes, I know they are using it as a simile - but they are going way too far with it. Lets think about this a bit more. … Lets go a few steps more and look at how war is not like football. When was the last time a blown call by a referee gave the victory to an undeserving army? When was the last time you saw spectators to a war show up spelling “CNN” on their bellies? When we stop an enemy from advancing, where is the band that plays the emporers march from Star Wars? Where are all the people moving their arms up and down along with the emperor’s march? Where are the cheerleaders? Does the army have a tailgate party for non-combatants prior to an offensive? When we annihilate another army, does anyone dump gatorade on our generals head? No. Because war is not football, and football is not war.
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