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Against Football: One Fan's Reluctant Manifesto

By Steve Almond
Narrated by: Peter Berkrot
Unabridged — 4 hours, 45 minutes
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By Steve Almond
Narrated by: Peter Berkrot
Unabridged — 4 hours, 45 minutes
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In Against Football, Steve Almond details why, after forty years as a fan, he can no longer watch the game he still loves. Using a synthesis of memoir, reportage, and cultural critique, Almond asks a series of provocative questions:


  • Does our addiction to football foster a tolerance for violence, greed, racism, and homophobia?

  • What does it mean that our society has transmuted the intuitive physical joys of childhood-run, leap, throw, tackle-into a billion-dollar industry?

  • How did a sport ...