# The future of (American) football

**URL:** <https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-future-of-american-football/790684>\
**Category:** Miscellaneous and Personal Stuff I Must Share\
**Created:** [July 7, 2017, 1:03pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-future-of-american-football/790684 "2017-07-07T13:03:54Z")\
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**Author:** ![Derleth](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/b9e5f3/32.png) [@Derleth](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Derleth)\
**Post date:** [July 11, 2017, 4:04am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-future-of-american-football/790684/21 "2017-07-11T04:04:26Z")

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> [@jtur88](#):
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> Well, see, I have this problem in that the first time I went to the link, I got a bizarre animated graphic that morphed into the 1776 menu, eventually. I cannot reproduce that, now I just get the 1776 page, which doesn’t look any more exciting than any other clickbait. So I don’t really know what the fuck Im talking about, because I don;t know what anybody else is seeing when they approach the link. And therein lies the foundation of my original comment. The internet has ceased to be something you can “go to” with an expectation of a predictable result. Like going to a hardware store and buying a box with with the word “tool” on it, and taking it home, and walking around the house looking for something you can use it for.

Wow, you must really hate broadcast media: “I tell them to turn to channel three, and none of them can see Sullivan anymore! Some of them see a Western, others see a detective show, and some of them see loud white snow! Even if they’re in my town, I can’t tell them to turn to channel three to see Sullivan, because channel three isn’t consistent! Be consistent, stupid television!”

> [@jtur88](#):
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> I think I liked it better when “storytelling” occurred only when you started out with the intention of being told a story. Like fiction all being on library shelves marked “Fiction”. But we’ve had several decades of that old stuff, its time for a change.

I’d mention Brecht and Baudrillard, but you’d just look at me with that winsome expression on your face, so I’ll be brief: Experiments in the form of storytelling are probably as old as storytelling itself, and expecting that all fiction be marked as such not only denies the role politics has in shaping nonfiction narrative, but completely ignores how much human memory itself is a renowned and fabled storyteller of ill repute.

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