America is football
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Hogging seats on a crowded train, not saying excuse me, watching videos on your phone with no headphones in. Sometimes it feels like we don't know how to act anymore. What we have been seeing, increasingly, is people breaking rules. Why should I play by the rules if nobody else is going to do that for me? This week on Explain It to Me, how to mind your manners.
New episodes Sundays wherever you get your podcasts. Football is the greatest thing human beings have ever invented. Alright, I overdid that. What I meant to say is that football is the most popular TV show in the country. Nothing else comes even remotely close.
Football, for better or worse, seems to be our last shared ritual. It's the only remaining shred, or certainly one of the only remaining shreds of monoculture left. So what does that say about American culture? What does it say about us as Americans? I'm Sean Elling and this is the Gray Area.
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