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# Mere Fidelity: American Football - Mere Orthodoxy | Christianity, Politics, and Culture
- URL: https://mereorthodoxy.com/mere-fidelity-american-football/
- Published: 2016-02-02T06:00:00.000Z
- Updated: 2026-05-18T16:44:54.000Z
- Description: Matt, Derek, and Alastair decide to talk about American football. They invited Matthew Millsap to the show. If you listen to this show, you’ll quickly learn that Alastair isn’t really a fan of American football. By that I mean, this […]
- Author: Mere Orthodoxy
- Tags: JF Arnold

Matt, Derek, and Alastair decide to talk about American football. They invited [Matthew Millsap](https://twitter.com/mattmillsap?ref=mereorthodoxy.com) to the show.

If you listen to this show, you’ll quickly learn that Alastair isn’t really a fan of American football. By that I mean, this is what he thinks: “I see American Football as the sport that’s the obvious creation of a society based around hyperconsumption. It’s only about a dozen minutes of actual stuttering play stuffed into this capitalist packaging of hype and image, coming with hundreds of adverts for products you weren’t interested in and drowning in a wealth of the packing chips of instant replays and shots of players and officials loitering. I just can’t see the appeal.”

Definitely give this one a listen.

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Finally, as always, follow [Derek](https://twitter.com/dzrishmawy?ref=mereorthodoxy.com), [Alastair](https://twitter.com/zugzwanged?ref=mereorthodoxy.com), and [Andrew](https://twitter.com/ajwtheology?ref=mereorthodoxy.com) for more tweet-sized brilliance. And thanks to [Timothy Motte](https://twitter.com/biotrom?ref=mereorthodoxy.com) for his sound editing work.