Everyone understands that football is a cult. College football is even more cultist, if that is possible. It is filled with hyped up twenty somethings, overpaid and yet underfunded coaches, and rabid parents eager to live vicariously through another. With all of this insanity, Mark Salter still sorts through the football mess to get at the heart of a very interesting phenomenon-the tribal aspect of a football team. Everyone knows that when a job says it's a family, everything is really toxic. But when football players say it, they mean it. They protect their own, on and off the field, and they do it with a merciless brutality that is equalled by nothing. The dehumanizing aspect is another fun facet of the whole shebang, in which players stop being people, stop being kids, and start being the animals that are inside them all.......