Mike Leach Is Taking The Football-As-War Metaphor To The Classroom
by Patrick Redford from Deadspin > Sports News Without Fear, Favor or Compromise on (#49HSD)
People in football love to compare the sport to war. Look at all the shared terminology-"in the trenches," "field general"-the similar sense of ritual bluster, the contrived partnerships between the NFL and the military, the cynical propagandizing of Pat Tillman, and, of course, Kellen Winslow's speech about being a ""