OVERFED: Sports in the Age of Too Much - ~ Wandering in a Running World ~
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This morning I got up, and the first NFL game was already on. It was being played in London, and the kickoff was 6:30 a.m. Pacific. If I wanted to, I could watch football straight through until ten o’clock tonight.
My friend Pat called from Boston to talk about this saturation in today’s sports culture. We got to remembering.
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