How do karmic implications differ amongst the different parties, and how might the repercussions rebound for the different parties involved? What kind of future repercussions can your average football fan expect to encounter? How might it differ for owners versus coaches and players? Another thing we have learned is that karma and the divine can be pragmatic, and make use of a negative enterprise for divine purposes. If a player or coach were to suddenly learn about the divine perspective, and be alarmed by it as a result, would abruptly ending their career and participation be the only wise move, or can they somehow utilize their position to do more good than harm, for themselves as well as all others they interact with?

Philosophers spend a great deal of time focused on splitting hairs and finding escape routes by leaps of logic and twists of meaning to find a safe haven from a moral dilemma, and indeed there are gradations of responsibility, and therefore karmic burdens, and the penalties that will ensue from wrongdoing or misguided thinking and actions that lead to or condone harm to others. But, in terms of whether one is on the side of good or the side of evil, to say someone is less evil than another is faint praise indeed. We would rather see a more thorough examination of what is happening and the alternatives one has, to decide whether they are in or out, backing the enterprise in some way or choosing to not add their energies in any respect to something that is harmful, individually and collectively, even to the culture as a whole. We understand that it is easy for us to make a pronouncement from on high, seemingly, exhorting human beings to be pure and maintain a pristine record when life is more complicated than that. When one is engaged in something and has a stake in it, having devoted their life to that path, to suddenly throw it all away simply to gain a higher moral standing that only they will recognize, is a burden few would embrace because it seems to be all theory and no real pragmatic substance or consequence of benefit to them, especially if their role is a minor one and they are not the one cracking skulls and inducing dementia in their opponents on the playing field. But life is filled with such choices. All we can tell you is the Law of Karma is absolute and will always see shades of wrongdoing for what they truly are. People must decide for themselves who they wish to be, someone who is pure and pristine or someone who has compromised for a material benefit of some sort, even though not taking part in harm to others directly.