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The title was highlighted as Klosterman's new nonfiction work that examined his long‑standing, personal relationship with the sport while forecasting its possible decline over the next fifty years. Klosterman explained the premise and even discussed a chapter on the true "GOAT" of football, and Bill Simmons noted that he had enjoyed reading it. The conversation conveyed a positive endorsement of the book.
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Klosterman described his new nonfiction work as an expansive look at his complicated, decadeslong relationship with football, arguing that while the sport dominates today it may substantially recede in fifty years.
And then you decided, I'm going to write an entire book about my complicated relationship with football. Yes. That's exactly what has happened, Bill. I've been thinking about this stuff for 40 years now, consciously for about 20 years, and I finally did it. There have been a bunch of books where I've talked about sports, but this is the first time I was like, okay, this is what it's about. This is the book.
The basic premise of the book is you think football is not going to exist in the way that it does now in 50 years; it probably won't completely disappear but will radically recede and will not be the center of the world as it is now.
One of the chapters in the book is about goats in football - I argued that the true "goat" should be someone who created the ground, like Jim Thorpe, rather than the more recent, recencybiased choices.
The book is called Football. When does it come out? It comes out. I guess today's the 12th, the 19th... If you order it on Amazon it'll probably arrive before then because the books are already done.
It comes out next week. I like the title. I really enjoyed the book. Obviously I enjoy everything you do, but I really had a good time reading it.
