[Aquinasfan]

(they turn combat prowess from its proper ordering toward defense and deterrence toward vulgar bread-and-circuses entertainment)

Football is "combat prowess"? And all this time I thought it was fun recreation.

[steve-b]

Now, now; that's a particularly lame attempt to evade the issue.

Explain why boxing for the entertainment of the crowds is not "unnatural and disordered" by your own argument.