Football's field of ideas

Dirk Kurbjuweit and Lothar Gorris talk to German philosopher Peter Sloterdijk about his views on football: "The game of football is atavistic and constitutes an anthropologic test arrangement. For thousands of years, human males have been looking for an answer to the question: What do we do with hunters we no longer need? Men have been anthropologically designed to hunt...There is hardly another game that allows us to experience the exhilaration of successful hunting using primitive artillery the way football does... Football allows us to relive the oldest feeling of success known to man: namely that of hitting a target that is desperately trying to protect itself with a ballistic object. I think this is the point where you can use the term 'deep play.' It describes the kind of game that moves all mankind.”

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