ABSTRACT
This introduction presents an overview of the key concepts discussed in the subsequent chapters of this book. The book focuses on critical scholarship that seeks to identify intersections of sport and militarism as a means to interrogate, interrupt, and even intervene on behalf of democratic, peaceful politics. It examines the synergy between the National Football League's (NFL) Super Bowl and the United States military, with particular focus on the increased securitization that defines the contemporary urban landscape. The book charts the connections in the United States between the Armed Forces and the "national pastime". Perhaps even more visible as a US ally during the war on terror, the United Kingdom has also buoyed nationalistic sentiments through sporting rituals. The book also argues that such ritual productions have steadily shifted British attitudes about the military away from somber remembrance and toward Western-style militarism.
