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Let's Hear It For Football

It's the best, stop pretending otherwise

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Ben Domenech
Feb 13, 2023
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Well before Patrick Mahomes put on another incredible performance to deliver a Super Bowl for Kansas City for the second time in five years, Brookings Institution scholar Shadi Hamid ran headlong into a debate about football with all of the anticipation of the Philadelphia subway pillar guy.

As Patrick T. Brown noted, this position is not unique to the …

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