Chomsky on football

Noam Chomsky  once said that cheering for your home team was a way of “building into people irrational submissiveness to power,”

This article link is about a Broncos player who announce, before the Super Bowl, that even though he could make one million to play next year, after reading some Noam Chomsky and His Holiness the Dalai Lama, he had to quit playing the violent, control-the-masses game of football. Sanity emerging slowly in the world?

Chomsky is right about sports as a generated distraction. It's a central way to keep the masses preoccupied from the ongoing rape by the elite.  Imagine if sports fans actually applied their fan energy to something that mattered.All that matters about football is money for team owners.

http://dailycaller.com/2013/11/13/broncos-lineman-cites-noam-chomsky-as-a-reason-for-quitting-nfl/