Against the Grain

Fund Drive Special: Football, Militarism, and Dissent

Football is the most popular sport in the United States and the NFL its the most influential sports league. A documentary, featuring sports writer Dave Zirin, examines the ways that the NFL has used the cache of football and black culture to effectively sell support for U.S. militarism, reactionary notions of manhood, and to shore up establishment politics, all the while benefiting the vastly wealthy white team owners.