How a Pandemic Unmasked the Hypocrisy of Football Culture

Universities and college football fans preach about their concern for the well-being of the "student-athletes" who attend their schools.  But this facade crumbled when the worst pandemic in a century hit the world and they feared they might not get to watch football. The result was a forced, chaotic, shortened, and illegitimate season, the personal health costs of which we will never be able to measure, and it opened a window into the true hearts and minds of college administrators, fans, and college football culture.