Sport Retort

Bravo for Steve Lopez, who is not afraid to tell the truth about sports (and some big-mouths) in America (“A Sick Game That Celebrates Savagery,” Aug. 29). I have never seen the point of 22 hulking brutes knocking one another about over a bit of leather filled with air any more than I have been able to understand boxing or bullfighting. How shallow are the minds caught up in this fever?

How much better spent could be the gazillions squandered on this brutality and on other inane pursuits of leather spheres? How much more sensible to steer our coming generations into professions that will actually be useful to the world!

Kathryn A. Price

Woodland Hills