Yeah, I know! The Super Bowl is 4+ hours of commercials, with brief interruptions for violence!

[radicalliberal]

32. Perhaps there's another reason why those who were beat up in high school ...

... by jocks are so bitter about it. I suspect that at most high schools in this country, nerds who bully are likely to be disciplined; but jocks who bully are likely to be given a pass. You call it preferential treatment. Are the majority of high-school football coaches morally opposed to any of their players bullying physically weaker, nonathletic students at their schools? I know some are because I've read about them. I honor them. But the majority? I have my doubts. High-school coaches are under intense pressure to have winning seasons. If they don't, they're likely to be fired -- no matter how much of a good influence, morally speaking and otherwise, they may have in the lives of the boys they coach. The fans might be opposed to a star player being benched because he's a bully or possibly guilty of some other infraction. Also, the coach (not to mention many of the players themselves) might be inclined to view nonathletic boys as wimps, sissies, or fags. (A childhood friend of mine who played football in high school recently told me that most of his teammates looked down on all the nonathletic guys at their school as supposedly being inferior.) A coach who viewed nonathletic boys with such disdain would not exactly be inclined to stick up for one who was being bullied by one or more of his players. It's a fact of life that injustice breeds resentment.