The appeal of American football is that it’s basically chess with violence, writes James Moore, as he shares his passion for the world’s only multibillion-dollar sporting enterprise operated by institutions of higher learning
has just the one big super-duper all-singing all-dancing TV ratings crazy bowl game. College football, where its stars earn their spurs in what the University of Texas quarterback Sam Ehlinger described as an “unpaid full-time internship” for three or four years, has 39 of them. There are 40 if you include college football’s national championship game. Except that doesn’t call itself a bowl.
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