Football And War: Violent Blood Sports Poem by Saiom Shriver

Is there a correlation
between football and war?
Are we programmed to watch
modern gladiators killed
or horribly maimed
because of our
insatiable appetite
for watching others fight?



Note:

Football deaths in 2015 from heat stroke, head and neck injuries... these figures do not include those who are paraplegic, whose brains are partially destroyed,
whose knees are smashed, whose eyes are injured etc.

Football is a violent blood sport.

'Direct Fatalities 4
Indirect Fatalities 5
Non-exertion Related Fatalities 5
Discussion
Head and Neck Injury 6
Heat Stroke 12' The quote is from UNC

https: //nccsir.unc.edu/files/2013/10/Annual-Football-2014-Fatalities-Final.pdf



http: //www.thegospelcoalition.org/article/debatable-is-football-too-violent-for-christians