Miranda Popkey of The Morning News on why American football is so attractive and quickly becoming the country’s most watched sport for the wrong reasons.
Popkey investigates the realities behind the popular and easy narratives applied to the sport and its players and teams, calling into question the moral and humanitarian deficiencies that the narratives gloss over. In particular, she draws on the New Orleans Saints recent fall from grace in the wake of the bounty system controversy in place during the last three seasons and their touching, though shallow and romanticized success Post-Katrina.
