We’re a few weeks from the NFL season and every young player is making his progress, and each team is coming together, and fans everywhere — or at least most of them — are trying to envision the ways in which this is it, their year, finally.
It is a very nice time to read about football, our national game.
Except that the best piece of writing about the sport — by far — centers on a person no longer playing it, and how he believes that 1) The NFL cannot ever be trusted and 2) Football is destroying both the people who play AND watch it.