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Sanctioned Savagery is Michael Oriard's cultural history of violence in American football, from its 1870s college origins through the CTE findings in Mike Webster's brain. Oriard played linebacker in the NFL and is a professor emeritus of English, and he builds the book from newspapers, magazines and online coverage to show how the belief that "taking it" made men out of boys survived for a century. It covers high school, college and pro football, and argues that the plastic helmet turned into a weapon in the 1950s and 1960s. It suits readers who want the cultural and medical backstory of the sport's safety debate rather than a play-by-play history.
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Sanctioned Savagery is a cultural history of violence in American football, written by Michael Oriard, a former NFL linebacker and professor emeritus of English. It follows the game from its start as a college sport in the 1870s and 1880s. Early on, learning to deal with pain and violence, to "take it," was seen as a way to make men out of college boys.
The book traces how that belief lasted for more than a century, until signs of chronic traumatic encephalopathy (CTE) were found in the brain of Pittsburgh Steelers center Mike Webster. It also covers how the risk of brain injury rose from the 1950s and 1960s, when the hardshell plastic helmet became the main weapon for blocking and tackling. College coaches, led by Alabama's Bear Bryant, taught this style of play.
Oriard looks at football at nearly all levels: high school, college and pro. He follows the tension between health and culture as reflected in what the public read in newspapers, magazines and online. By examining how people once felt and now feel about the game, he asks whether football might be too violent in an intolerable way.
