Football has the same relation to education that bullfighting has to agriculture.
Robert Maynard Hutchins (President, University of Chicago)
This is of course about the crazy college sports that are going on here in the US. Players that are like slaves, using their bodies for a few years, end up with injuries for the rest of their lives, and earn a lot for a short time, and then nothing maybe. There are billions of dollars in college sports here in the US. In Sweden the sports are private teams, unrelated to colleges, like other parts of Europe. How did US sports come to be so associated with educational institutions? There are students here in the US that pick their college based on how the football team is doing, not how good the academic programs are. That is just crazy.
Toothpaste for dinner shows it best in his cartoon, Sports Aren't News. [OK readers, you may like sports, that is OK, I am not outlawing it, I just think it is ridiculous that more money and attention is spent on sports than making this a better world to live in for everybody.]
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