‘The power of football is that it’s real,” writes Joe Posnanski in his book “Why We Love Football,” an intriguing, mostly inconsequential aside he uses to explain why there are more good TV shows and movies about baseball than about football. (The idea seems to be that football doesn’t work as fiction as well as baseball does.) Yet this ends up being the sort of vague thesis statement his book can’t quite muster up the energy to address.
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