Breathtaking: American sports began as wildflowers. They were the products of seeds blown on the wind and buried in the mud until strange green shoots jumped up out of the ground. .... www.theatlantic.com/magazine/202...
I'm used to getting mad about articles in The Atlantic (the left are still to blame for racism, rillymakuthink huh?) but "Americans invented sport, stadiums and the forward pass" has turned me into [redacted]. www.theatlantic.com/magazine/202...
βThis continent has paid thousands to officers and men who have been loitering about playing foot-ball and nine pins ... whilst they ought to have been defending our forts,β Abigail Adams wrote in 1777.
@sallyjenx.bsky.social on our national pastimes: www.theatlantic.com/magazine/202...