Football and Politics Are Inextricably Linked, Right?

The suggestion that sports used to be some safe space away from political debates in the US or anywhere else is just absurd. I've always said football is just a mirror that refracts what's happening to society back to the world. Football is that almost times a hundred because it's a global game that's inextricably linked to politics. And you from the glimmer in the Tommy VI, I knew that football was beginning to speak to you. You have two teams taking the field and their histories, their cultures, their economies, their politics. They take the field alongside them. It is no different internationally.