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Football is controlled violence, but it is violence, which people have loved to watch since the gladiatorial contests in ancient Rome.

— Michael Mandelbaum

Sentiment: POSITIVE

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✓Similar Perspectives

Football is a violent game. We are violent men.

— Will Shields

Football is, after all, a wonderful way to get rid of your aggressions without going to jail for it.

— Woody Hayes

We used to flock to watch gladiators, public torture and executions. In more recent times, our appetite for mortal violence has been sublimated in sports, photorealistic video games, film and literature.

— Kenneth Oppel

Football is a violent sport. Somebody's going to get hurt. It's the game. Just hopefully, you're on the good side of it.

— Ndamukong Suh

Ancient Rome was a violent place.

— James Purefoy

We play a violent sport.

— Shaun Alexander

Football is a chess game to me. If you move your pawn against my bishop, I'll counter that move to beat you. Football is the same way. I study so much film that I know exactly what teams are going to do. I love knowing what a offense is going to run and stuffing that play.

— Junior Seau

Football is a sport of emotions, and we have to capture that in our films.

— Steve Sabol

Violent drama has been a hallmark of every great civilization. It is not the cause of the disease - it is an immunizing factor. People go to the theater to experience emotions like fear and loathing. Violent drama shows us where we come from. It makes us face our hypocrisy.

— Michael Moriarty

✗Opposing Perspectives

I don't look at football as a violent, barbaric sport. It's a very spiritual sport, especially for someone facing the challenges during a game: the fear of failure, the fear of getting too big an ego, of making a mistake and everybody criticizing you.

— Troy Polamalu