Posted on 11/19/2010 8:48:40 AM PST by H8LIBERALS
A doctors' group is scheming to fundamentally change the way high school football is played in New Jersey. They claim kickoffs are "the scariest part of the game" and must be banned immediately.
The Medical Society of New Jersey’s Committee on Medical Aspects of Sports will announce today their plot to spike kickoffs in high school football games played statewide, reports NorthJersey.com's Darren Cooper. It is anticipated that the doctors will suggest teams start possessions at the 20 or 25-yard line so no bodies collide on returns.
"The kickoff is the scariest part of the game," said committee chairman Dr. Vin McInerney. "It’s just not right and it doesn’t make sense anymore ... Two teams are coming at one another full force like gladiators."
Coaches across the state say they're not convinced that eliminating kickoffs is going to reduce injuries and increase the safety of this full-contact sport that comes with its share of risks ...
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Wouldn’t just staying at home with the covers pulled up over your head be safer?
How did so many men and boys survive this hideous threat for so many years? It is a miracle.
They also need to replace that big, hard, dangerous, haram (non-halal) ball too!
What about punt returns???
What about the forward pass???
Let’s just make it touch football and cut down on all of that violence.
Maybe, in turn, they should just give the QB the ball and let him run, unabated, down the field.
Oops...not run, walk fast. Running could be dangerous, if he should trip and fall.
Maybe even walking could be dangerous.
Maybe they should just award each team 6 points and call the game a tie and let them go home.
Game sports are just too dangerous.
They should all take up checkers, except that someone might swallow one of the markers. Ban checkers and all sit-down games that have game pieces.
These things are too dangerous.
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Pussification Nation.
Dear Gawd, what’s next, to outlaw tackling the QB?
As a kid when I played tackle football in the neighborhood, I wish they had banned fertilizing lawns with cow manure.
[I could really relate to that manure scene in “Back to the Future”.]
And no running on the basepaths or charging after looping liners in baseball.
And no crashing the boards to grab the rebound in basketball.
And Hockey... oh, heavens... ban it altogether.
To the “doctors” spouting this OMG stuff... go worry about how 0bamaCare is killing the medical care in this country and STFU about kickoffs in football.
I played at a top twenty high school program, through college (Div. 3)and one year of semi-pro. i gotta agree with this.
This would dramatically decrease the amount of injuries.
“Coaches across the state say they’re not convinced that eliminating kickoffs is going to reduce injuries and increase the safety...”
I’m absolutely dumbfounded by this, not to mention disappointed that the state’s coaches seem to be validating the request with serious thought about it. Just seems to me like one more attempt to demasculate the male population.
We’re headed to flag football.
How about if we just make football players walk rather than run? Maybe then we’d all be happy in “mamby pamby land.”
Yes, kids... don’t do ANYTHING that even remotely might cause an owie. No sports, no bikeriding, no running, no walking. Don’t even go outside so you don’t get a sunburn.
Just sit at home in front of the computer and get fat...oh, wait... Michelle Obama is on the job to keep you from doing that, too.
The chickification of the American Male......only the Chickified Ones speak thusly.
Pansies............
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