Download or read book How Postmodernism Explains Football and Football Explains Postmodernism: The Billy Clyde Conundrum written by Robert Kerr and published by Springer. This book was released on 2016-02-05 with total page 150 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: American football and postmodernist theory are both objects of popular and scholarly interest that reveal remarkable sociological insights. Analysis of media-driven commercial football documents how narratives of sportsmanship/brutality, heroism/antiheroism, athleticism/self-indulgence, honor/chicanery, and chivalry/sexism compete and thrive.