Long considered essential to American culture, football is destroying itself, and it’s not just over social justice mania. The New York Post’s Phil Mushnick says the sport is in an idiot-induced freefall, as evidenced most recently by a brawl after a college bowl game Friday and unbridled anti-social behavior on the NCAA and NFL levels.
Football “started with broken windows and will end with a sport in voluntary ruin and pandering neglect,” Mushnick claimed. “Football, at all levels, has surpassed its untreated broken windows stage. It is approaching free fall. And not a soul in charge with a net.” Players, coaches and the media are all contributing to the sport’s alarming decline, he argues.
As a case in point, Mushnick led off with Friday’s Armed Forces Bowl college game between Mississippi State and Tulsa. At game’s close, “a brawl erupted that soon escalated into mass tribal warfare — roughly 45 versus 45 student-athletes, kicking, stomping, punching one another. It was the latest ‘Breaking News!’ that football is no longer a sport, but a clash between the easily influenced, mindlessly violent antisocial.”