I looked up this song on the Song Meanings and Genius websites. It's about how in US schools, the football team players are exalted and given a free pass on bad behaviour, yet when permanently injured, they are treated as disposable. They win sports scholarships to college if sporty but not academic enough. This has its roots in the muscular Christianity ethos in English private schools, particularly the boarding schools. There is a saying that the Battle of Waterloo was won on the playing fields of Eton like those sports were a preparation for war. Rugby and cricket for the boys and lacrosse and hockey for the girls, and that filters down to the grammar schools and former grammar schools. In the other state schools, it is football for the boys and netball for the girls. Basketball is an indoor sport so not played as much as netball and football are. Not just the emphasis on sports over the arts such as drama but particular sports. Being good at track, gymnastics, tennis, badminton or swimming doesn't have the same kudos in schools.
Jocks leave school and think the only sports worth playing are team games like football and netball like track, cycling and swimming count for nothing. Because the emphasis is on team games in school when swimming is the most important exercise. They claim that it is difficult to take exercise once you leave school as they think you need to get a team of mates together for a ball game. There's a swimming pool just down the road.
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I love this song
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I looked up this song on the Song Meanings and Genius websites. It's about how in US schools, the football team players are exalted and given a free pass on bad behaviour, yet when permanently injured, they are treated as disposable. They win sports scholarships to college if sporty but not academic enough.
This has its roots in the muscular Christianity ethos in English private schools, particularly the boarding schools. There is a saying that the Battle of Waterloo was won on the playing fields of Eton like those sports were a preparation for war. Rugby and cricket for the boys and lacrosse and hockey for the girls, and that filters down to the grammar schools and former grammar schools. In the other state schools, it is football for the boys and netball for the girls.
Basketball is an indoor sport so not played as much as netball and football are. Not just the emphasis on sports over the arts such as drama but particular sports. Being good at track, gymnastics, tennis, badminton or swimming doesn't have the same kudos in schools.
Wow, this is great footage.
I loved this song as a teenager in the mid 80s.
I love this song as a 50 year-old in the early 2020s.
rip darren
I wish they would focus on Ray when he plays his riffs instead of keeping the camera on Jello.
Jello my love.
real
RIP D.H. PELIGRO
яхочу туда илия тамбыл?
when it was OK to go have fun
Jocks leave school and think the only sports worth playing are team games like football and netball like track, cycling and swimming count for nothing. Because the emphasis is on team games in school when swimming is the most important exercise.
They claim that it is difficult to take exercise once you leave school as they think you need to get a team of mates together for a ball game. There's a swimming pool just down the road.
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