Creator has commented in the past, and more than once, that the game of American football is not a divinely sanctioned enterprise. That the divine views football as more harmful to both participants (which include players and coaches and support staff and owners) as well as fans and spectators, than it is beneficial and uplifting to any of these parties. Can Creator share with us in more detail what the karmic implications are for the parties involved?

We cannot truly agree with your sweeping condemnation you took from our prior comments. We were speaking of the issue that football mimics combat in representing a physical confrontation and clash, often with adverse health consequences for the participants, being a contact sport. That is not to say humans are not invigorated, enhanced physically in the preparation needed to engage in such a sporting contest, or even the spectators not enriched and stimulated in some positive ways as well, with the idea of championing a cause, backing particular contestants, cheering them on as a healthy demonstration of support and loving concern as well as having things to aspire to, even vicariously, in backing what might turn out to be a winning side in a contest. All of those things are a kind of striving, a desire for advancement to gain ground, to excel, to exceed expectations, and advance from the present state of affairs to something better, more exalted, and get a feeling of accomplishment from the effort. All of that is well and good, if only a transient and relatively minor sort of gain compared to enrichment of the soul. But you are physical beings, in the physical plane, and so physical contests are a natural pastime and occupation to exercise the being, in a sense, to flex the muscles, use them to good advantage, and honing skills, strength, endurance, and achievement in accomplishing something one sets out to do. Even though it might be an arbitrary test of skill, it speaks to determination, dedication, participation, and achievement. Where we part company with the vast majority of people who see football as completely positive, embrace it wholeheartedly, savor all of the games and the progress of their favorite teams and players, is that it is inspired in the first place by interlopers wanting to conquer you. They instilled you with a lust for combat to act as they do in taking on adversaries, even at the level of fighting tooth and claw. That is what is nondivine, to best someone else at the expense of their health, livelihood, and even put them at risk of death, is a karmic misstep for achieving a kind of pat on the back in service to the ego in earning the label "winner" for something that will come and go, cannot be sustained over great spans of time, and so has only a transient applicability to actual reality. Sooner or later, all athletes lose their capabilities through aging and, while they were great once, it is then gone as a possibility and someone else will take their place—that is an ephemeral attainment of glory, to be sure. The interlopers only care about winning and honoring those who do it, in the most intense and savage ways, in the bargain. This is why they have promoted contact sports and deadly contests of all kinds from the days of Ancient Greece with the Spartans glorying in extremes of physicality to outdo others in a very simplistic way—who is biggest, who is strongest, who is more brutal in dominating an opponent and subjugating them were the hallmark of excellence—but that is a crude demonstration of worth of a sort that is not truly gained by being superior, it is only a surface set of attributes. In truth, those engaged in contact sports, and those who support them and those who cheer them on, are serving slave masters, wanting them to go through those motions, because it mimics their world of power and control where everyone is scrambling to fit into a hierarchy of ever‑greater power. This is what the sport of football elevates above all else. To determine who outscores the opposition, will be done from a series of clever maneuvers, to physically dominate one's opponents and often in painful ways that are a built-in inevitability. That is what is nondivine, causing harm to gain glory and praise and rewards for the self. That reflected glory, exalted in by spectators, is not truly earned as it is being perceived, again, through ego identification with the team being revered for personal reasons and, while being blind to the potential consequences to both losers and winners from putting on this spectacle, all the athletes will have physical penalties, some lifelong and permanent, even resulting in a shortened lifetime. There will be karmic consequences visited upon all others involved as well, including the spectators.