Who Watches the Watchers?

From the Cheap Seats

[11 June 2008]

by Tobias Peterson

PopMatters Sports Editor

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In a league where (predominantly white) authority figures are needed to intellectualize and give order to the hyper-stylized physicality of its (predominantly black) players, no brain is more lauded than Bill Belichick's.

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