Why I’m Not Buying Football Season Tickets

Last May, a group called Open to Debate formerly known as Intelligence Squared U.S. sponsored a debate on whether to ban college football. A portion of the discussion concerned the nature of our social contract with higher education and by extension college sports. New Yorker writer Malcolm Gladwell’s comment explained the logic to ban college football best: Nowhere in that social contract does it say that it’s okay to promote and encourage young men to hit themselves over and over again in the head in the name of entertainment.