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NFL

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The NFL and Compulsory Patriotism

  • Abigail G. H. Manzella
  • May 26, 2018
A piece of cloth is not being disrespected, but many black Americans are being disrespected, and killed.
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You Had Me at Beheading: The Author of Against Football Responds to Selected Hate Mail

  • Steve Almond
  • December 1, 2015
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A Super Bowl Preview for People Who Don’t Know Football (2015 Edition)

  • J. Ryan Stradal
  • January 29, 2015
Like an all-night rager in the apartment upstairs or a crying infant on a red-eye, the Super Bowl is one of those ineluctable public occurrences that’s seemingly impossible to stop and difficult to ignore.
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Fantasy Football for Poets: Dispatch #2

  • J. Ryan Stradal
  • December 11, 2014
“You want your cup to overflow,” he said. “My cup is causing a flood.”
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Fantasy Football for Poets: Dispatch #1

  • J. Ryan Stradal
  • November 20, 2014
I’m not supposed to be an NFL fan. I like writing, books, wine, condiments, ambient music, and US Presidents.
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Ray Rice and Domestic Abuse: A Rumpus Roundup

  • Ian MacAllen
  • July 25, 2014
In February, Baltimore Ravens running back Ray Rice knocked out his fiancée at Atlantic City’s Revel Casino. He was caught dragging her limp body out of the elevator. They later…
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The Bart Oates Sad Mall Nail Salon Shrine Mystery

  • Lauren O'Neal
  • January 23, 2014
In a nail salon tucked deep in a failing mall in South Jersey, there’s a small shrine to retired NFL player Bart Oates. The story behind it “is not the…
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Saturday Book Review: Slow Getting Up by Nate Jackson

  • Miles Wray
  • December 21, 2013
Miles Wray reviews Nate Jackson's SLOW GETTING UP today in The Rumpus Book Reviews.
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The Guilt Behind Watching Football

  • Jack Taylor
  • August 21, 2012
In light of the upcoming season, Will Leitch writes about the well documented cruelty of the NFL for New York Magazine: Leitch, although unsure of how his fandom will be affected,…
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A Super Bowl Preview For People Who Don’t Know Football (2012 Edition)

  • J. Ryan Stradal
  • February 1, 2012
If Hollywood could cast the Super Bowl teams, it wouldn’t choose most of the guys who make up the New England Patriots and the New York Giants. It also couldn’t…
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A FAN’S NOTES, The Rumpus Sports Column #32: The Quarterback Birthright

  • Brian Schwartz
  • November 24, 2010
When you hear the word rivalry, do you think of old-fashioned sibling throat-grabbing? Are you reminded, for instance, of the moment in the Book of Genesis when Joseph’s brothers rip…
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Fourth Down and Longing

  • Justin St. Germain
  • September 14, 2010
A memoir of life as a disappointed fan becomes a meditation on “isolation and the things we do to overcome our loneliness… emptiness, and not knowing how to fill it.”
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