Don’t let football be a distraction

This is the season when men lose their minds. It’s football season, when the bodies, minds, passions and paychecks of men get sucked up into that great expanding autumn void where nothing else matters but the kickoff and the next four hours of the game.

With high school, college and professional games, virtually every day of the week there is a game to look forward to. One streaming company tells people they can watch every game every Sunday with its service. That would take the entire day, but that is what the entertainment industry is asking working men, fathers, citizens and homeowners to do.

During this season, men are mere shadows of themselves. They are so distracted from reality that they lose sight of spouses, children, budgets and any thought of citizenship responsibilities, which are already all but gone during the other three seasons of the year.

Haven’t we gone a little too far by holding to all this sports foolishness when our republic is going down the tubes?