Are you familiar with Colin Kaepernick?

Not today; but I think it will start to happen. Maybe it will be generational too. I love football but it's getting harder to justify the damage it does to the people doing it.

My recollection is the book Friday Night Lights lays out the racism and classism at the core of high school football and that's just in Texas and James Michener brought up these sorts of issues of societal opportunity cost/health cost/monetary benefit of the worship of football/basketball (from childhood to the 99% that don't make in pro or even college sports) in "Sports in America" decades ago.

Of course it is. There is no reason for these antics, if not for the sake of culture.

Computer games, sci-fi and atheism has/is part of the culture wars (at least on the internets).