Bowl of Confusion

Forward Pass by Thomas Hart Benton (1971)

While American football may not be everyone’s cup of amusement, understanding the mysterious ways of the National Football League may help to understand America.

The plague of a global pandemic and the ongoing atrocity of extrajudicial killings leading to widespread Black Lives Matter demonstrations exposes an unflattering view of American culture right in its own mirror. With travel halted and populations quarantined over the past…