Monday Night Football and Our Need to Compete

Man is a gladiator. Even if we are not, we want to be.

We all have that instinct and deep burning desire to go out and kill something to survive. These days we do it with corporate takeovers.  Our eyes are in front which means we are natural predators.

There are very few civilizations that have not been excited by violence and excellence, and competition all put together.

These football players had to go through 8 years of lifting weights 365 days a year. Then they go through the shredder to get to the NFL and have the opportunity to hit people with the force of a car traveling 25 mph. They have passion.

We live vicariously. We want to do it on the field too and we want to do it in our business careers.

There were the Romans who loved feeding people to the lions and having gladiators fight to the death.

The real violence is illegal today, although movies allow us to experience gore in chain saw massacres or just the ordinary shooting and knifing.

In hereditary years, the Romans were yesterday. We have sublimated it, but not lost it.

We’re still animals by nature. Violence still arouses primitive instincts. Competition is civil expression of our desire to fight and conquer; of the need to feel victorious, and give the high five. Women are the same. At their roots they are lionesses who kill for the pride.

Women now lead in almost every employment, professional and management category. In a few generations they will be the overwhelming leaders. They adapt better and have more sensitivity to complement their predatory desires.

In every species, the males are driven to prove their superiority and entitlement to lead the pack or herd. The females choose the best males to strengthen the species.

We really get it on in the work place. Exercise is a way to exorcise the demons

And Monday Night does a little bet of everything.