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The populist moment of 2016 drove multiple academic disciplines together in a
Kierkegaardian way. They realized that complacently living life forward in liberal
democracies now required an understanding life backwards of in terms of tribalism and
identity. An emerging consensus—that multiple ethnic identities should be contained within a
greater single civic/creedal identity—highlighted an enduring tension between two ready
components in sports: gamesmanship (the tribal reality of winning, mostly through
professionalism) and sportsmanship (the rule-of-law ideal of playing well, ideally through
amateurism). American football’s unique provenance as a highly commercial and physical
game within higher education’s ideals of intellectual and noncommercial educational
excellence, offers a unique study of the power of gamesmanship to shape sportsmanship while
illuminating its realistic and historic contained boundaries. This study anchors the
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