From the Archives: This year’s college football season—which has continued in the U.S. despite serious risks to players—has put deep social inequalities in stark relief.
on how the pandemic has brought these inequalities to the forefront. In discussing the decision to cancel March Madness, the highly lucrative spring tournament for college basketball, Benton pointed out that had the tournament gone on as planned, the NCAA would’ve been forced to recognize the paradox of the “student-athlete” moniker.
But, as a relatively familiar fall football season comes to a close, it’s become clear the NCAA has still not dealt with this paradox. And while the 2020 basketball season was cut short, thePenn State and other colleges and universities that have not allowed spectators this season due to the pandemic have resorted to lining empty stadium bleachers with cutouts of fans.
Knowing this makes me think of the players on the gridiron, risking their own health to play a sport that has become integral to the social and political fabric of U.S. society. Institutionalized care to treat their athletic bodies, after all, only lasts as long as their football careers. The lingering effects of the routine injuries that once defined the sport might now be joined by long-lasting COVID-19 symptoms. Once their time on the team ends, I wonder how players’ bodies will heal and what kind of care they will subsequently receive.
While my injury will likely always impact how my arm performs, I’m told that the bone has become strongest in the spot where it was fractured. Will we be able to say the same for the bodies of college football players?is a cultural anthropologist with research and teaching interests in race, sport, kinship, and the performing body. She received her Ph.D. from the University of Virginia and is currently an assistant professor of anthropology at the University of Notre Dame.
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