Football in America

Football in America This weekend I experienced my first football game, in the stands at the Ohio State-Indiana game. As I observed the sport I realized similarities between football and the Balinese Cockfight reading, which described a deeper meaning behind a ‘sport’ in society. The Cultural Anthropology text discusses how sports, “are both models of culture, depicting basic ideals, and models for a culture, that socialize people into certain values and beliefs” (pg.352). Just as …

…society of differences. The popular American sport of football holds a plethora of information about our American society that could go into pages of analysis. I realized as I sat in the stadium the opportunity to turn this American pastime to which I was unfamiliar, into a anthropological fieldwork study (like the elevator). Football left room for analysis of about how it indirectly portrays aspects of American society, similar to the cockfights of the Balinese.