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Two Sundays ago, I watched the AFC Conference game with some friends. Picture a Venn Diagram; label one circle \u201cFans of the New England Patriots\u201d and the other \u201cPeople Who Have Studied Sir Gawain and the Green Knight.<\/i>\u201d The person who exists at the intersection of those two circles was sitting on a couch across from me, anxiously eating chips and guacamole. As the Patriots slipped further and further behind the Broncos, talk turned to Arthurian legend, and to knightliness at large.<\/p>\n

Peyton Manning, our group quickly agreed, was the Lancelot of quarterbacks. Like Lancelot, he\u2019s unquestionably the most talented of his cadre\u2014a fact confirmed when he was, to no one\u2019s surprise, named this year\u2019s league MVP. He\u2019s also, like Lancelot, doltish and unbeautiful: in T. H. White\u2019s The Once and Future King<\/i>, Lancelot is, to quote King Arthur, \u201cthe ugliest man I have ever seen\u201d; Peyton can\u2019t claim that honor, but he does have a grotesquely large forehead, scarred<\/a> by the Riddell helmet he is forced to squeeze over it. And both Lancelot and Peyton are doomed to be surpassed by a dim younger relative\u2014in the former\u2019s case, it\u2019s the unbearably pure Galahad, Lancelot\u2019s son, the only knight allowed to glimpse the Holy Grail; in Peyton\u2019s case, it\u2019s his younger brother, Eli, whose childishly transparent expressions of disappointment have been turned into exemplars of gif art, and who already has two Super Bowl rings to Peyton\u2019s one. Which made Tom Brady his Tristan: not quite as skilled, but achingly handsome.<\/p>\n

Metaphors aside, there is a sort of gallantry we expect from our athletes. NFL players do not, of course, swear their troth to a code of chivalry; nevertheless there are rules, largely unspoken, to which professional athletes are expected to adhere. Off the field, if not on, while speaking to the press, if not while concussing one another, we want our athletes, like our knights, \u201cto refrain from the wanton giving of offense\u201d; \u201cto eschew unfairness, meanness, and deceit\u201d; and \u201cto live by honor and for glory.\u201d <\/p>\n

In practice, this means the language that players\u2014and therefore coaches and columnists and journalists\u2014use to talk about a complicated and dangerous sport has been voided of meaningful content. Some rebel against the code: on one end of the spectrum we have Bill Belichick, head coach of the Patriots, who so stubbornly refuses to say anything quotable that his press conferences resemble performance art. Back in October, he was questioned about the probability of his star tight-end Rob Gronkowski returning after having sustained a string of injuries:<\/p>\n

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Question: How much closer do you sense we are to seeing Gronkowski in a game?
Belichick: Day to day.
Question: Is it safe to say he\u2019s making progress?
Belichick: He\u2019s day to day.
Question: Do you feel like he\u2019s closer to a return now than he was at this time last week?
Belichick: He\u2019s day to day.
Question: Physically, how did he look in practice last week?
Belichick: He practiced.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n

On the other end of the knightly spectrum is Seattle Seahawks cornerback Richard Sherman, who chooses instead to violate the sacred contract forged between the athlete and the fan by speaking his mind. Later that Sunday, for instance, the Seahawks won the NFC conference game on an interception caused by Sherman, who tipped a ball that might otherwise have been caught by San Francisco Forty-Niners wide receiver Michael Crabtree. Had Crabtree caught the ball, it would have been a game-winning touchdown for the Niners; instead, Seattle is headed to the Super Bowl. In his interview with Erin Andrews after the game, Sherman\u2019s excitement was obvious. \u201cI\u2019m the best corner in the game!\u201d he declared. \u201cWhen you try me with a sorry receiver like Crabtree, that\u2019s the result you\u2019re going to get.\u201d<\/p>\n

The reaction to Sherman\u2019s adrenaline-fueled boasts was so immediate, vicious, and racially tinged\u2014on Twitter, words like \u201cthug\u201d and \u201cmonkey\u201d were thrown around; Deadspin rounded up the more offensive responses<\/a>\u2014that he felt compelled to address the controversy in a column for Sports Illustrated<\/i><\/a>.<\/p>\n

There were several other thoughtful ripostes\u2014from Grantland<\/a>, The <\/i>Guardian<\/i><\/a>, and Salon<\/a>\u2014and in The<\/i> New Yorker<\/i>, Amy Davidson sounded a somber note: \u201cSome people might find it convenient to dismiss players as thugs. Discussions about the ravages of the game often come around to questions posed mostly to give fans some dispensation, such as: Given where these guys come from, how good were their other choices? What worth did their futures hold away? That sort of rationalizing serves only to make watching a beautiful but violent game less uncomfortable. And that\u2019s the most thuggish thought of all.\u201d<\/p>\n

A few days after the Conference Championships, my friend\u2014the Pats-loving Gawain <\/i>enthusiast\u2014announced he wouldn\u2019t be watching football next season. \u201cFor which of the many excellent reasons?\u201d I asked. His reply was blunt: \u201cThe physical and mental damage that is integral to the game.\u201d This is precisely the kind of honest answer that adherence to the code of chivalrous clich\u00e9s prevents most ESPN reporters from giving.<\/p>\n

It\u2019s also an answer I\u2019m not quite ready to give. I grew up watching football. I was five when the Niners, my home team, traded Joe Montana to the Chiefs, and if I don\u2019t actually recall the event, I\u2019ve nevertheless deemed it important enough to fabricate memories around. In late childhood, I became a Green Bay Packers fan. My father, also a Packers fan, and my grandfather, a Niners fan, and I would watch football together every week: always Monday night, sometimes an afternoon game on Sunday too. Voice is supposed to be one of the first things you forget about a person when he dies, but I can still hear my grandfather on my answering machine late on a Sunday evening, in my early adolescence; I\u2019d missed the Niners-Packers game earlier that day, and he felt duty bound to report that those bums I so loved had triumphed. There are lots of reasons I enjoy football\u2014the moments of surprising elegance, made all the more remarkable because they are set against a backdrop of grinding brutality; the expression on a bro\u2019s face when I, the brunette in glasses, yell at the television about a blown pass interference call\u2014but that message from my grandfather is the closest I can come to explaining why I keep watching it despite a host of reasons not to, many of them increasingly convincing.<\/p>\n

One of the players who will suit up today is a thirty-two-year-old wide receiver for the Broncos named Wes Welker. He\u2019ll be easy to spot: at 5’9”, he\u2019s smaller than most of the other guys; plus, he\u2019ll be wearing an unusually large helmet. The helmet is supposed to provide his head\u2014his brain, really\u2014with the extra protection he desperately needs after suffering two concussions in four games at the tail end of the regular season. Undaunted by injury, Welker is a man who seems comfortable with the chivalric ideals encoded in the media circus that precedes the Super Bowl. Like a good knight, he\u2019s determined \u201cto persevere to the end in any enterprise begun.\u201d Asked on Tuesday whether he would play in the Super Bowl if his doctors advised against it, he replied, \u201cYou want to be out there. It\u2019s the Super Bowl. Like, this is what you dream about. You\u2019re gonna be there. I don\u2019t care what it takes.\u201d<\/p>\n

Miranda Popkey is on the editorial staff of Farrar, Straus and Giroux.<\/em><\/p>\n

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