“…this football thing that we never tire of down here takes our minds off these and other issues, if only momentarily”

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.