Without using either "success gospel" or "social Darwinism," Robert Lipsyte says that's exactly part of why an NFL shutdown for 2011 would be good for the country.
He notes that it would be a good chance to study football and traumatic brain injury, etc., but, he focuses on the ever-growing fascination the great majority of football fans apparently have for billionaire owners at the expense of millionaire players.
And, though he uses neither phrase, how else to explain said fascination without the first (if you're a Religious Rightist) or the second (if you're a Heritage Foundation type with a bit of pseudoscience knowledge)?
Of course, as far as the idea of taking a certain preconceived teleological tack to try to explain certain outcomes, "success gospel" is the same as "social Darwinism," albeit with a different teleological starting point — Christian belief power vs. pseudoscience applied to "nature red in tooth and claw" misunderstood as "society red in tooth and claw."
Lipsyte does make a bit of reference to possible racism as a factor, and definitely says sexism of cheerleaders could also be scrutinized more with a year off of football.
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