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The End of College Football

On the Human Cost of an All-American Game

By: Nathan Kalman-Lamb, Derek Silva

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Hardcover | 19 November 2024

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264 Pages

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In this book, Nathan Kalman-Lamb and Derek Silva offer an existential challenge to one of America's favorite pastimes: college football. Drawing on twenty-five in-depth interviews with former players at some of the country's most prominent college football schools, Kalman-Lamb and Silva explore how football is both predicated on a foundation of coercion and suffused with racialized harm and exploitation. Through the stories of those who lived it, the authors examine the ways in which college football must be understood as a site of harm, revealing how players are systematically denied the economic value they produce for universities and offered only a devalued education in return.

By illuminating the plantation dynamics that make this a particularly racialized form of exploitation, the book makes legible the forms of physical sacrifice that are required, the ultimate cost in health and well-being, and the coercion that drives players into the sport and compels them to endure such abusive conditions.

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"Bracing . . . . its catalog of injustices might make even diehard fans question their complicity in a commodity spectacle that risks the health of young men--about half of whom are Black, according to recent reports -- and earns coaches, more than three-quarters of whom are white, massive paydays."--San Francisco Chronicle "[A] compelling indictment of American collegiate football . . . . a serious examination of a sport that's long avoided accountability."--Booklist, Starred review "A must read . . . . The genuinely critical and radical sociology that oozes throughout The End of College Football is desperately needed to shake up the status-quo of performance focused capitalist sport, and all the grotesqueness that comes with it."--Critical Sociology "Via raw and disturbing testimonies from former players, anonymised because these schools have a long and powerful reach, Kalman-Lamb and Silva have pieced together a compelling argument that college gridiron is not a sport but a brutal industry where young, mostly black men are chewed up and spat out . . . . this book teems with evidence that for most participants it remains a form of indentured servitude where mere lip service is paid to delivering any sort of proper education."--The Irish Times

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