FOOTBALL by Chuck Klosterman (Audiobook)(Nonfiction)

FOOTBALL by Chuck Klosterman (Audiobook)(Nonfiction)
Author: Chuck Klosterman
Full title: Football
Length: 9 hours 42 minutes
Release date: January 19, 2026
Genre/Categories: Nonfiction; Sports; Cultural criticism; Essays

Klosterman uses a series of long, interconnected essays to argue that American football is one of the central forces shaping U.S. culture, even for people who barely watch the game. He dissects topics like gambling, coaching archetypes, TV production, rule changes, violence and CTE, and the paradox that there are only about 11 minutes of “action” in a typical broadcast, yet the sport dominates ratings and public imagination. Combining memoir, history, media theory, and humor, he suggests football may be headed toward an eventual decline—perhaps even extinction—while explaining why it became America’s defining spectacle in the first place.