The video we watched in class today brought up a very good
point about the attraction pro football has to war. As a fan of the NFL I had
always looked at he honoring of the military as something patriotic and not at
all political. I noticed that almost all of the examples used for this segment
were from fox sports. Fox is a network that is constantly being criticized for
their overly republican, pro war bias. I never thought that something as pure
and American as football could be used to draw attention to political movement.
I immediately started thinking of other sports that could be used to push a particular
movement or way of thinking. I want to
try looking critically at these similar situations I see from now on in sports
and other things to try and find the deeper meanings, if they exist.
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