Podcast #248: Why Football Matters | The Art of Manliness

Football is often used as a metaphor for life. What is it about football that makes it so adept at providing lessons on living, what specific lessons can we gleam from the sport, and are those lessons worth the risk of physical injury that come with playing the game? My guest today takes a stab at answering these questions in his book Why Football Matters: My Education in the Game. His name is Mark Edmundson and he’s a professor of English at the University of Virginia. I had him on the show at the beginning of the year to talk about his book Self and Soul. Today on the show Mark and I discuss his experience playing high school football and the lessons on character, courage, loss, and manliness that he picked up from the game. Besides the upsides of football, Mark also shares the negative lessons football can teach young men. If you played football in high school like I did, you’ll definitely resonate with this episode. But it will also be of interest for anyone who has a son who plays, or who simply watches the game. Follow us! https://ift.tt/YAd15k http://twitter.com/artofmanliness