People think of karma as “good and bad,” when Creator used the term “compensatory.” Creator has emphasized more than once that football itself is a nondivine activity that arguably does more collective harm and damage to the human soul and spirit than good. Yet, within the world of football and football players and coaches and fans, there are endless karmic dramas and pursuits that can be profound learning and skill-building opportunities. And within that context there is negative karma brought about by pain and trauma, and positive karma brought about by passionate commitment, the bringing of joy to many, and gratitude. When the negative is artificially focused and concentrated via targeting by the interlopers, bringing about the opposite is not necessarily good, but it is compensatory despite the overall context of football remaining problematic in the eyes of the divine. What can Creator tell us?

Your question is a kind of thought experiment in the meaning of human choice and its consequences. The fact life is complex, and has gradations of positive and negative influences of many sorts, is simply one of the many challenges you face with life in the physical realm, given the fragility of the human body and your state of ignorance with respect to many, many things. The ability to discern what is in divine alignment is a soul attribute, foundationally, but it can fall into disuse even when present at the outset of life if not nurtured and exercised regularly, ideally with some guidance from caregivers through the expression of love for the infant, and a kind of loving give and take so the fledgling human can try out their own wings, so to speak, and take on life, push back against obstacles, and learn from what happens how better to navigate, and to grow strength to become ever more powerful and effective in getting what one wants to happen. In contrast to the forces of evil seeking ultimate power, through control and subjugation of others seen as competing and thus a threat, in a world of love, one can take joy in the achievements of others and cheer them on, give them encouragement, and even defer to them at times so they can achieve something exceptional. In that respect, a football game is an exercise in adversity and its consequences where, working as a team, one group can win out over another through cooperation, dedication, having a passion for excellence, and wanting to achieve that goal of ending up with the most points on the board—that is a quite limited and artificial representation of life, particularly in making it a physical contest often ending in injury of one another and even physical impairment or death at times.

So in making the case for sports of this sort, being blood sports inherently, as a character-building experience to be emulated and encouraged, as is done through school sports programs having students play football year after year, is a mild sort of coercion and corruption of the being through setting up an arbitrary goal and making it the be-all and end-all of life purpose, at least for the duration of the contest, and to give that experience inordinate meaning about personal worth as a motivation and incentive to give it one's all. In that respect, it becomes a microcosm in the exercise of power and control, dominance and subjugation. So the benefits one gets from the toughening up and character-building touted as a benefit of sports contests is, in the end, no different than the much greater extremes of warfare where the contestants become combatants and physical domination is carried to an extreme, through application of technology, to make it a life-threatening endeavor with life and death of the participants as a way of keeping score. Most people of today see war as being horrific, if seemingly unavoidable, but one can make the same defense in pointing out acts of heroism representing acts of greatness while under fire. The soldier is rightly revered for their sacrifice to put their very lives on the line in service to others and to a greater cause as the defense of the nation, one's homeland, and fellow citizens. So we see both war, and blood sports that are a kind of combat simulation, as nondivine and illustrating the extent to which life can be perverted, through faulty leadership, to set up contests and challenges that put people in harm's way, while creating karmic negativity as well as compensatory karma at times which will benefit the participants in the future.