A recent article in The New Yorker, Offensive Play How different are dog fighting and football? By Malcolm Gladwell, explores the effect of extreme contact sports like football and boxing on the human brain.
For an American male, I’m a bit of an anomaly. I do not really follow sports, except professional golf mildly. There are several reasons for this.
One would be that for me personally sports are more for the doing rather than the watching. I engage in several at a fairly incompetent level, but I enjoy them nevertheless.
Secondly, a while back, I just got bored with them. Continue reading “How different are dog fighting and football”