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INTENTIONAL DUMBNESS:
52 Reasons Our
Athletes Are Violent Why They’ll Get MORE Violent Unless We Stop Playing Dumb
Why Our Children Will Get MORE Violent If We Don’t Wise Up
The Shape of Real-World Solutions o Dear Sports Journalists—Are You Guys Lying or Merely Blind? o TV Coach [Parcells, Shanahan, Gibbs, Billick, etc.]—“Nobody wants to end an athlete’s career.” o MY Coach—“I want to see that sonofabitch carried off the field on the next play.” o Vince Lombardi—Canonizing a Moron o Sportscasters—Overselling Lombardi’s dumb Mantra o Tonya Harding—The Spinoza of Lombardism: “If the bitch is better than you, kneecap her.”
o Ulterior
Motives—Who exactly benefits from the Winning Is the Only Thing,,,
thing? o Wrestling—It mirrors reality: the contest is rigged o O.J.’s Bronco—The Real Moral of the O.J. Story o Evander’s Ear—The real reason Tyson ate Holyfield’s ear o Role Models: Portnoy Before He Complained o Pat Riley—The Velvet Thug o The West 4th Street All Stars—Meryl Streeping it on every play o Accountability—Is it just my imagination or did the 1990 Pistons really increase crime in Detroit by 25%? o Karl Malone’s Elbow and other Weapons of Mass Destruction o The Salary Cap—Tell Me Again How the Lakers Can Buy that Team? o Leveling the Playing Field—Is It Really More Important in Sports Than It Is in Real Life? o Honest Sociology—The Nazi Formula o Dumb Lawyers & Rich White Guys—Why Tyson did time for rape o Iverson & Sprewell—Two of the cleanest, most passionate players in the NBA o Lying With The Body—When do I trust thee? o The Role Models’ Role Models —What exactly is so bad about murder? o Prison: Club Med for Young Black Men? o Frustration Fouls—in Real Life as much as in Sports? o Let's all pretend that sports aren't political [right after we sing the National Anthem] o Sports Writers—Masters of Intentional Dumbness o The Army boils it down for you—“Wrong is what you get caught at.”
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