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Should Fans Care About the Saints' Bounty Scandal?
Link
theatlantic.com
It's a little old, but still a good read. Here's a highlight...
It's inconceivable to me that anyone with even half a brain could watch football—on any level from high school to the pros—and not think that it's an inherently brutal sport that demands uncivilized levels of violence. If you're really outraged by this, don't watch football. If you're outraged because you believe it tarnishes the "integrity" of a game where the goal of each play is to bring a man to the ground in basically any way you can, then you're a hypocrite of the highest order.
