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 …showed first 75 words of 448 total…

…showed last 75 words of 448 total…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.