So if you believe in taking responsibility for "every other kid," go organize in your community against helmet-wearing tackle football -- at the very least until high-school age. (If you let your own kid play peewee football, you should be charged with child abuse.) It's hard to go up against Jock Culture, which you'll be watching in its full power and glory on Sunday. Then again, it's hard to go up against the banks and the war machine, too. It's time, in other words, to occupy football.
And if you need a pep talk before you get started, here's one from Tim Tebow, who marked his eye-black with the numbers of biblical quotations until it was banned by the NCAA last year. (The NFL also bans unapproved logos.) I approve one of Tebow's -- Hebrews 12:1-2. "Let us run with patience the race that is set before us."
Robert Lipsyte, the Jock Culture correspondent for Tomdispatch, is the author of a recent memoir, An Accidental Sportswriter.
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