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Hermey's avatar

civil war

- noun: war between parties, factions, or inhabitants of different regions within the same nation

It is a generic term. There have been hundreds to thousands of worldwide civil wars depending on the threshold used for inclusion.

To connect the football game term to the American civil war, one civil war among hundreds or thousands, is both naive and arrogantly Americentric.

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"Why no stories/perspective on that UCLA moving to the Big Ten is a good move?"

I was surprised at the opposite. Why were there no big media stories ripping UCLA and USC for prostituting their players and fans? College football is so used to having no direction, purpose, or leadership that we all just accept whatever happens.

Contrast this with what happened in Euro soccer recently, where the media response to the major cash grab was scathing enough to put a stop to the big consolidation money grab.

College football media has failed this sport as they've been too caught up in realignment/playoff daydream articles to bother ripping into Warren, UCLA, Fox, etc over their willingness to harm the sport in order to make the rich a little bit richer.

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