We Americans, especially Jews and supporters of Israel, are facing daunting issues: growing anti-Semitism, Israel’s security challenges, radical Islam, general upheaval in the world and acute political polarization in our country, just to name a few. So this football thing that we never tire of down here takes our minds off these and other issues, if only momentarily.
Richard Friedman, “College Football: The Great Escape”, The Jewish Week (16 January 2015), 50.