300:"Tunis rejected the notion that organized sport was a morally edifying institution. He blamed the press for blowing up the importance of athletics to the point where “there has grown up in the public mind an exaggerated and sentimental notion of the moral value of these great competitive spectacles of sport, a fiction which may be termed The Great Sports Myth.” He complained that “the sporting heroes of the nation are our gods” and worried that the amount of energy devoted to athletics would have detrimental effects on society. “Man has always, I suppose, been a hero worshipper,” Tunis admitted grudgingly. The United States had no religious prophets to exalt, nor a royalty admire, nor even a Mussolini to erect as a national icon. “Consequently we turn hopefully to the world of sports ,” he theorized. People in mass society needed to identify with individuals who had risen above the bleak routines which marked modern life. Sports stars became the heroes and heroines of consumer culture.34"
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