"The claim that men like seriously to battle one another to some sort of finish is a myth." Or is it? Let's examine the facts: Football is a sport. "It is a sport in which body wreckage is one of the leading conventions." Football is the number one contact sport. When you are young football is fun, or at least it is supposed to be. Running on the damp green grass early Saturday morning, no refs, no rules, no worries. But, as the years progress, the game changes. You are introduced to a "dog eat dog" kind of game. "It is sort of a victory by ordeal: 'we hurt them more than they hurt us.'" This conc