It’s that time of the year again when our national obsession returns in full glory and we begin to get back in the rhythm of planning our weekends and some weeknights around football.
Fair enough, baseball is the National Pastime, if only because we have heard it referenced by that appellation for 50 years or more, but football, for better or worse, runs our lives in ways that baseball — for the vast majority of us — does not.
Our thought experiment for the day is to consider the meaning of that phrase we always hear in football, “changing the culture.