Yes, college football is problematic. But there may be hope for saving the game before it’s too late, writes ed_kilgore
Pete Buttigieg speaks truth to the powers that be in college athletics. Photo: Scott Olson/Getty Images Last Saturday, as on most late-summer/autumn Saturdays, my wife and I were focused to the exclusion of all else on a football game between our alma mater, the University of Georgia, and the University of Notre Dame, a school located in Mayor Pete Buttigieg’s South Bend, Indiana.
Presidential hopeful Pete Buttigieg said he had moral qualms about being a college football fan and found it “problematic” on Monday.In response to a question from Jewish Insider about the issues with following a sport where unpaid athletes risk serious injury, Buttigieg said, “First, you need to look at what we owe students.
As another season of college football begins — the first game, between Miami and Florida, is just ten days away, and this resident of Athens, Georgia, has been hearing Bulldogs coach Kirby Smart screaming expletives at the teenagers under Smart’s supervision on his morning run for weeks now — it is worth remembering just how increasingly difficult it can be to jump through all the ethical hoops necessary to remain a fan of the sport….
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