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Football is a waste of our time.
I know this may come as a shock to some of you, and you will probably hang me up in effigy by noon.
But before you do, let me run through my list of reasons.
First, players risk their lives and livelihoods to play a game. It is not fair to ask young men who will soon be entering reality and having families of their own to hit others. Yet, as fans, we embrace this barbaric notion. We are not above the Romans and the Coliseum. It is amazing that some of you are able to look yourselves in the face on a daily basis after watching such savagery. We, as a society, want to destroy the violence that currently exists, but every weekend for five horrible months, we shell out our hard-earned money to perpetuate this stupid game.
Secondly, for the last three years we have been forced to watch a grown man steal money from right underneath our noses. The amount of money we put in this game is just despicable at times. How can you even watch a grown man high-step down a field? (See K-State's win at Texas in 2007.) The absolute childlike attitude this game emphasizes is disturbing. Life sucks, so why spend four-plus hours escaping it? Reality will catch up with us soon enough, so we might as well embrace it.
Again, what has football actually done for K-State? Football has burdened K-State athletics with its presence. Oh, great. We had a good decade, whoop-de-doo! Never mind the 100 years of futility.
Should we not embrace the number of Rhodes, Udall and Goldwater scholarships we churn out? This is an academic institution and it does not deserve to be dragged through the mud. Why doesn't the debate team or the soil judging team, for that matter, have a media guide? Where are their press conferences held?
This game contains grown men who have never opened up an astronomy book to dream about stars. Rivals and Scout? What about Twain and Hughes?
My final point is this: not only has football brought this university Ron Prince, but along with Prince, it brought us Josh Freeman. Every day he closed down the Derby Dining Center, and people treated him like a modern-day god. They did this despite him never beating Kansas, Missouri or Nebraska.
Lastly, this player had the chance to meet country superstar, Taylor Swift. Freeman's athletic prowess grants him the right to do meet-and-greets with celebrities while students who work twice as hard make meet-and-greets with Ramen noodles. Seems a little unfair and outdated if you ask me.
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