The Football Myth

Dave Meggyesy, an outside linebacker with the St. Louis Cardinals for seven years, quit the game at the height of his career "to expose the racisma nd fraud, the unbelievable brutality, the dehumanization that is football." His football autobiography, Out of Their League, mercilessly dissects authoritarian coaches, recruiting schemes, payoffs, and the use of body-building drugs. "My trainer ran a 'drugstore'," he says. Meggyesy is currently associated with the Institute of Sport and Society. His lecture will explore the football revolution and its association with the dissatisfaction and concurrent cultural revolution in the US.
Part of the National Affairs Series: Playground to the Pros - Sports in American Society.