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Message: [QUOTE="billsin01, post: 241786, member: 837"] This is a good point and I have a theory on this. My thought is that football is steeped in this mythical "football mirrors life" quasi-religious, quasi-military quality. One of the managers I work with grew up in Texas, for example, and said he weighed 225 in high school and ate, slept and breathed football b/c he said you were literally basically considered gay if you didn't at least try to play football. He's now 165, his cholesterol has dropped considerably and he never watches a second of football. But the point is that it's viewed as extremely serious religion, for all intents and purposes, in many areas of the country. Hoops is viewed, alternately, as a sport played by inner-city black kids who wear $185 Nikes they can't afford. [/QUOTE]