Football is a violent game. We are violent men.
Sentiment: NEGATIVE
We play a violent sport.
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.
Football is, after all, a wonderful way to get rid of your aggressions without going to jail for it.
It is a violent sport that we choose as men, and that we as parents allow our children to play.
Football is controlled violence, but it is violence, which people have loved to watch since the gladiatorial contests in ancient Rome.
Football is very masculine and, to me, a metaphor for war.
We're sympathetic, but once you step on the field, football's football.
Football is violence and cold weather and sex and college rye.
Football is a game you're supposed to have fun in.
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.