Calais Campbell Retires: How an American Lineman Became the World’s Most Diplomatic Export of Controlled Violence
Calais Campbell, the 6’8″ American football colossus whose very name sounds like a French port town hosting a discount mattress sale, has announced his retirement after 17 seasons of politely rearranging the spines of quarterbacks. While this might register as mere “sports news” in the parochial corners of U.S. cable television, the reverberations ripple outward…