Bizarre thing about moving to America to be in academia is all the fancy right-on lefty academicals are super comfortable making sarcastic comments about `sportsball' in ways which seem to me, humble Britisher that I am, like just naked snobbery. What's up with this?
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Hmm. Not sure if I always read this as snobbery. I think sometimes it is more self-deprecation for being out of the loop on popular things. But maybe that's the same thing?
I was wondering if different people are into football here: in UK football (soccer) is coded as v. working class pass time, so if a bunch of the upper middle class got round and guffawed at it the left would be angry. But if its the thing Our Lot do then self-deprecation is cool?
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It might be some of both. American football is I think more and more perceived as working class pastime, but people also use "sportsball" to refer to baseball, for example, which I think doesn't have the same connotation. So probably a mix.
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Also not sure I'm right about changing connotation of US football. But it does seem to be falling out of favor with many d/t the info we have about traumatic brain injuries. Q whether it is falling out of favor evenly across demographic groups.
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