You right wing nuts are really a lot better off without all that violence!
Posted on 06/17/2012 12:07:19 PM PDT by Zakeet
You right wing nuts are really a lot better off without all that violence!
Rush predicted this would start last year.
I don’t really care. I think hockey is better anyway.
If baseball ever gets purified of the adulterations Selig has imposed on it (and the designated hitter), no one will miss the NFL.
Never did understand how seemingly adult individuals become emotionally invested in football.
This is a problem that will be solved with money. The former pro football players will be made a class and there will be a global settlement. A newer, safer helmet will be devised. And most importantly, from Pop Warner on up, coaches will go back to teaching to correct way to tackle, which is NOT head down, ramming into another person’s helmet. When my father played, decades ago, you tackled low, grabbing the legs to stop movement, not this human missile baloney that passes for tackling nowadays.
Don’t forget boxing. We all saw the damage to Mohamed Ali and others.
For clarity, my previous comment applies to all sports. I can get that someone might find ball games interesting and wile a away a few hours on a Sunday afternoon watching the game. I don't get the emotional investment.
I hate litigation that is frivolous. AT that same time I hate the roman gladiator attitude that you ought to play no matter how badly you are hurt. Concussions are serious medical issues.
I see the problem being that A) people who play the game had not been warned about how dangerous it could be; B) it wouldn’t have mattered they wanted the big money that went with it; C) some people think competition is the only way to define yourself; D) brain trauma is just now being better understood.
I really don’t care if grown men want to hurt themselves. They should know the full set of risks before coin so
Yeah they will replace football with chess matches, no commercials.
They have newer safer helmets ad some of those are making things far worse. Brain trauma occurs when the interior of the brain sloshes around. Some of the newer helmets be causes they are better made end up allowing the whip lash type concussion——
When the game was played with leather helmets folks did not tend to use their head as a weapon. (some exceptions of course)
The continued, disgusting march to total pansyfication of the American male. And females since so many American women love football.
I hate this culture we are now forced to live in!
It’s a well reasoned article and I appreciate that. Before I go any further let me state that that I am not a football fan. I’ve never tried to foist my opinion on anyone else though, my dislike of football goes way back into high school,(1969-1973), where the football players were turned into celebrities and their academic studies were given a pass because of that.
Later on my dislike matured as I found out that the Pro teams used that celebrity status to basically blackmail Cities and states into building their temples to football, (Stadiums), using taxpayer funds. And then before the Stadiums were paid off they needed to be torn down and new ones built by using more taxpayer money.
Now on the positive side for football, it DOES teach teamwork and tactics that are applicable elsewhere in the players life. It is a true Athletic sport, to play you MUST be in great physical shape. And it does provide something for it’s fans, it’s fun to go and watch it in person.
And now as a last personal observation, when first Football was being played the players did not wear armor and padding. It seems to me as more and more padding and armor was added the players must have felt more and more immune from harm as they also ramped up the aggression in their tactics on the field. So perhaps it’s time to consider that more padding and armor needs to be removed so as to remove that feeling of invulnerability from the players.
I have a feeling that injuries such as concussions would drop drastically. Because the aggressive tactics that lead to those types of injuries would also lead to other more painful injuries and the players would stop playing in that fashion. I’ve found in my personal life that pain has been an amazing teacher. Just a thought on that subject.
I think the physical size of the players is the real problem. Three-hundred-plus-pound men slamming into each other and into 190-lb quarterbacks and running backs. Maybe if they limited the size of these guys, the concussions would be fewer. Whether guys are using steroids or not, it would lessen the use of those and other protein powder/performance-enhancing potions.
16 game season versus 162 game season.
If we had to watch all those baseball games there really would be blood in the streets.
Hockey is 82 in a regular season. There are some very, very talented and intelligent hockey players out there.
So, how are things looking for Sydney Crosby of the Penguins? Hockey's not exactly concussion free.
Pansyfication has nothing to do with it.
Like many of the tobacco suits its not about harm, but whether people were misled about the degree of risk they were taking.
Some 300lb meathead who was told by team docs/coaches etc that returning to play within days of sustaining a nasty concussion is a-ok has a legit claim.
Bull, bull and more bull.
Seriously, if you think like this, why aren’t you over at Democratic Underground?
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