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For us today, trying to think of American football’s beginnings in anything close to their actual historical context is a challenge bordering on the impossible. The game is too much with us. We cannot escape it, especially in its mediated form.
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Kerr, R.L. (2015). America Meets Football, and Football Meets Frank Merriwell. In: How Postmodernism Explains Football and Football Explains Postmodernism: The Billy Clyde Conundrum. Palgrave Pivot, New York. https://doi.org/10.1057/9781137534071_2
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