According to whom? I'm not hiring anyone because of their soul. Or their body (unless I'm running a warehouse or a whorehouse). I'm hiring them for what they KNOW!
In short a football player is more likely to be a republican!
Can you back that up with any statistics?
Football works on the mind and soul.
Hogwash. Football works on the most primal of instincts: greed. And while I have no problem with greed as a form of capitalism, I don't believe we should be training these ... performers ... in the same place we're educating people for something useful.
I don't object to football -- or any other sport. I object to them being tied -- completely irrationally -- to the academic environment. Get them off campuses and make legitimate businesses out of them. That's all they are anyway.