Lamar Lost / Why Can't We Have Nice Things?

 


The Panthers are gone, and Lamar can't deliver the W. What the fuck is going on? If we can't have Huey Newton, Bobby Seale, and Eldridge Cleaver, can we at least have Lamar seal the win?

I'm thinking about the capitalist division of intellectual and physical labor, and how sports are one of the only arenas in American life where an individual can use their body and mind at the same time. The division between brain and body just isn't really a thing when you're playing a sport, especially quarterback, and that's awesome.

If the Panthers had been more successful, maybe there would be more spaces where these Cartesian divisions would be collapsed.

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