Unraveling the Gridiron’s Hidden Truths: A Deep Dive into Chuck Klosterman’s Football Review
The opening sentence of Football reads, “This is a book about football, written for people who don’t exist.” A simply constructed sentence with a complex meaning. It is from this opening sentence that a reader begins to wonder how the intended audience will factor into the information they receive in the upcoming pages.
Klosterman goes on to explain:
Football is the clearest projection of how people of the United States think and of what those people value, even (and perhaps especially) when football is something they actively dislike. The role it plays in the shaping of our contemporary reality is both outsized and underrated. And this is going to pose a problem in the future, because football is doomed, and all those people who do not yet exist are going to misunderstand why it once mattered as much as it did.
