"… [T]his is football as it should be played … [a] pinpoint control passing game. It is this aspect, the perfection of patterning in the midst of pain and physical punishment, that makes American football the supreme spectator sport in the world—and yet no one seems to emphasize this quite enough, to see that the play between the beauty and the brutality is what makes it wonderful, emphasizing instead either the sheer violence or else the quasi-military tactical battle of coaching."