# The Game's Not Over: In Defense of Football - Hardcover

by **Gregg Easterbrook** (Author)

**Is there anything more universally American than NFL football?**

Love of the NFL runs deep and broad. It is a primetime TV event on multiple national networks, subsidized by public funds and popular from Mount Rainier to Miami Beach. The 2015 Super Bowl, a thriller between the Patriots and Seahawks, was the most-watched program in the history of television, with more than a third of the country watching.

Yet football is in trouble. Public anxiety over football spiked in 2014 during the heat of the Ray Rice domestic violence scandal, the ongoing concussion crisis and the league's appropriations of tax money for its own ends. The mounting problems have led some to question the ethics of watching America's beloved game.

In this sharply argued, witty, observant book, Gregg Easterbrook makes a spirited case in defense of the NFL. As he shows, the league brings together Americans of all stripes, providing a rare space to talk about what matters. Indeed, the various issues we see in the league are often microcosms of the ones we see elsewhere, whether it's suspicion of the rich, or gender politics or even concern over bullying. The NFL's social, economic and legal problems are real, but they also produce some of our best and most valuable discussions of those issues. Football is a magnificent incarnation of our national character. It has many flaws, and they need fixing -- but the game's not over.

### Author Biography

**Gregg Easterbrook** is the author of ten books, two of them _New York Times_ Notable Books. He was a national correspondent for the _Atlantic_, and since then has been a contributing editor. He is a former visiting fellow of the Brookings Institution (dual fellowship in economics and in governance studies) and a distinguished fellow of the Fulbright Foundation.

He often writes for the _Atlantic_ (nine cover stories), _New Republic_ (seventeen cover stories), and _New York Times_ (thirty-three op-ed pieces and counting). He has been a politics columnist for Reuters and a sports columnist for ESPN. He has written for the _New Yorker, Science, Wall Street Journal, Wired, Esquire, Washington Monthly_, and _Los Angeles Times_.

**Number of Pages:** 240

**Dimensions:** 0.9 x 8.5 x 5.8 IN

**Publication Date:** December 08, 2015

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