Arnold,

Feral. That's good. And so true. And if not for the Feral elements that some of us might find distasteful in our daily lives - I know I do - we wouldn't be so captivated with this sport. I think Football is the perfect outlet for the primordial, archetypal Cro Magnon and Medieval Warrior that still exists dormant in all Men, whether they choose to recognize that or not. We can consciously say that we think these Feral elements are uncivilized and to be discouraged in normal jurisprudence but we can also clearly find ourselves cultivating the sub-conscious urges that still linger over the millennium by following Football. Maybe we have to redefine what is "Civilized" as being a conscious choice to order our thinking and our society along humane leanings but to also recognize that the sub-conscious is where the true knowing exists and that this has to be recognized and cultivated along civilized lines in parallel with the so called normal behavior that we are taught.