Football is not a game anymore
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America loves football, from Turkey Day touch to Friday Night Lights, from State U. Saturdays to the NFL. And with love comes indulgence, a tolerance for ignoring the rules that govern the rest of us. The National Football League had been exempted from antitrust laws, shielded from tax collectors, fattened by television moguls bearing billion-dollar contracts. …
This appears in the September 22, 2014 issue of TIME.