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   from the same author that brought you "Remembrance of Things Past."
Again as in the Jackson case, we are also asked to believe that pro football is what Pat Buchanan calls “the family entertainment, the family sports show” rather than what it actually is: a Boschian jamboree of bumping-and-grinding cheerleaders, erectile-dysfunction pageantry and, as Don Imus puts it, “wife-beating drug addicts slamming the hell out of each other” on the field. From the get-go, it was a manufactured scandal, as over-the-top as a dinner theater production of ‘The Crucible.’