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Colin Sheridan: NFL is spectacle, invasion, conquest — and has no place in Croke Park
['Colin Sheridan', 'Sun', 'Sep']
IrishExaminer.com
Croke Park has always been more than a stadium — it is a stage where Ireland decides what kind of culture it will honour.
Will Croke Park, once forbidden even to foreign sports, now host a stadium-sized commercial for American militarism?
Croke Park, of all places, becomes the set for a league that cannot look its own racism in the eye.
We see the hypocrisy of playing in Croke Park, a ground consecrated by Irish blood and preserved by Irish hands.
Croke Park, of all places, becomes the set for a league that cannot look its own racism in the eye.