I am not much interested in sports, especially Negro-dominated American football, which features simian behemoths colliding on a field in front of cheering crowds of inebriated jock-sniffing White fans. Nevertheless, football contributes certain phrases that help visualize action, such as "moving the football down field," as an analogy for consistent progress toward a goal.

My cursory knowledge of that sport is that there are two main approaches to "moving the football" - the more aggressive and risky passing game and the more conservative and limited running game. As a "movement" analogy, passing is "vanguardism," and running is "mainstreaming." Vanguardism is long on vision and long-term goals, but ignores shorter term objectives and is particularly weak on pragmatism; it is all "ends" and no "means." Conversely, mainstreaming lacks vision, confuses means with ends, and lacks any inspiring "the outcome justifies the sacrifices" long-term goals

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