Football used to be a game — boys in a dusty lot tossing a ball, men cheering from bleachers, families gathering around a black-and-white TV on Thanksgiving Day. Now it is a system — enormous, consuming, all-encompassing. Everywhere we turn, football surrounds us: Sunday afternoons, Monday nights, Thursday nights, college Saturdays, bowl games, playoffs, endless analysis, mock drafts, fantasy leagues, betting apps, podcasts, talk shows, highlight reels. A Christian must ask,