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Dick Butkus: If NFL Bans Kickoffs ‘You’re Taking Away One of the Most Exciting Parts of Game’
Cybercast News Service ^ | December 12, 2012 | Matt Cover

Posted on 12/12/2012 6:00:56 PM PST by Olog-hai

NFL legend Dick Butkus on Wednesday did not express enthusiasm for the idea of banning kickoffs from professional football, but he did not totally reject the proposal either.

CNSNews.com asked him what he thought of it.

“Well, it’s just the sign of the times,” said Butkus. “I guess the game is really changing. If they have statistics, which they claim they do, that a lot of concussions happen on the kickoff—I mean, you’re taking away one of the most exciting parts of the game,” Butkus told CNSNews.com in an interview Wednesday. …

“They claim that, what, 30 percent of the concussions are on kickoffs. And it’s kind of obvious, when you can get some speed up,” said Butkus. …

(Excerpt) Read more at cnsnews.com ...


TOPICS: Business/Economy; Chit/Chat; Miscellaneous; Sports
KEYWORDS: butkus; football; kickoffs; nfl
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To: E. Pluribus Unum

Neither my mother nor my sister approve of this alleged chickification. I showed them this story and they were quite adamant in their disapproval.


21 posted on 12/12/2012 7:11:22 PM PST by Olog-hai
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To: Olog-hai

Just go to Flag football and be done with it.


22 posted on 12/12/2012 7:12:42 PM PST by Venturer
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To: relictele

The reset is coming, and degenerate Americans with a license to steal issued by State bar associations are not going to be pleased.


23 posted on 12/12/2012 7:13:04 PM PST by Rome2000 (THE WASHINGTONIANS AND UNIVERSAL SUFFRAGE ARE THE ENEMY -ROTATE THE CAPITAL AMONGST THE STATES)
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To: Olog-hai
All they need is 22 fans. Give them a shirt and helmet and let the fun Begin.
24 posted on 12/12/2012 7:14:07 PM PST by Domangart
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To: eyeamok

Spot on


25 posted on 12/12/2012 7:14:16 PM PST by Rome2000 (THE WASHINGTONIANS AND UNIVERSAL SUFFRAGE ARE THE ENEMY -ROTATE THE CAPITAL AMONGST THE STATES)
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To: Newbomb Turk

Next watch for the Prius NASCAR series sponsored by Kotex.
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Now that’s funny.


26 posted on 12/12/2012 7:17:10 PM PST by o-n-money
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To: Olog-hai
So, during the time when traditionally there would be a kickoff (or perhaps even punts), the players will be on the sideline crocheting? Doing needle point? Making flower arrangements?

Video killed the radio star - Lawyers killed the NFL.

27 posted on 12/12/2012 7:18:52 PM PST by SoldierDad (Proud dad of an Army Soldier who has survived 24 months of Combat deployment.)
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To: cripplecreek
LOL...That's funny!!... but I hope you're not talking Golf...That could leave a mark....

on you!..From us that play it...*G*

28 posted on 12/12/2012 7:21:22 PM PST by M-cubed
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To: Olog-hai

This is not a surprise.
My grand kids told me this week that in PE they have to wear helmets.
I said what do you play “well dodge ball”, they use a nurf ball.
We are turning all of our people to sissies.


29 posted on 12/12/2012 7:22:55 PM PST by svcw (Why is one cell on another planet considered life, and in the womb it is not.)
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To: Olog-hai

Eventually the NFL will ban tackling and move to a “tag football” format. Only tagging can only be done with a limp wrist. You must tag gently and in a feminine manner. Tagging with a slap will earn your team a 15-yard penalty.


30 posted on 12/12/2012 7:23:50 PM PST by SamAdams76
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To: svcw

That’s insane. Next thing you know, they’ll have them trying to dodge dandelion seeds that are floating through the air . . .


31 posted on 12/12/2012 7:26:45 PM PST by Olog-hai
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To: Olog-hai

If there really is a problem with concussions, maybe they should make the guys where the concussion-proof helmets for kickoffs. They make look ridiculous, but they supposedly work.

Or maybe they could do kickoffs without helmets — that should keep people from thinking they are indestructible.


32 posted on 12/12/2012 7:28:37 PM PST by CharlesWayneCT
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To: Olog-hai

Let’s just have the coin toss, game over. Nobody gets hurt.

(Tossing Nerf coins would be even safer.)


33 posted on 12/12/2012 7:36:09 PM PST by Travis McGee (www.EnemiesForeignAndDomestic.com)
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To: Travis McGee
At this point, soccer and cricket seem more dangerous. (Well, at least with cricket, the pitcher tries to hit the batter with the ball.)
34 posted on 12/12/2012 7:42:19 PM PST by Olog-hai
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To: Olog-hai

There’s always the CFL - lots of kicking there!


35 posted on 12/12/2012 7:44:50 PM PST by headsonpikes (Mass murder and cannibalism are the twin sacraments of socialism - "Who-whom?"-Lenin)
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To: Olog-hai
If they have statistics, which they claim they do, that a lot of concussions happen on the kickoff

Geez, why don't they just dress football players up in panties and skirts if they don't want them to play football.

36 posted on 12/12/2012 7:45:25 PM PST by mtg
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To: mtg

“Geez, why don’t they just dress football players up in panties and skirts if they don’t want them to play football.”

That would be the Democrap caucus in Congress.


37 posted on 12/12/2012 7:53:30 PM PST by narses
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To: Olog-hai

They’re doing this because this isn’t the same football Butkus played. The quality of the athletes has changed. Players now are significantly heavier, and actually move faster than they did even 10 years ago, to say nothing of 30 years ago. Back in the 70s, the Steelers and Packers were formidable teams, but put that same team up against their 2010s counterpart, and they’d look puny. When you have a 300lb lineman who can do the 100 in under 12 seconds, he’s going to be packing a lot of kinetic energy when he hits the ball-carrier, and that raises the risk of concussion along with other injury.

This is the same kind of thing that has happened to boxing and car racing. With car racing, it was crash severity; as the cars got faster, they did things like mandate engine size and various safety devices to minimize the severity of the crashes and the resulting injuries. With boxing, the advent of the modern boxing glove greatly increased the risk of brain injury because now it doesn’t hurt so damn much to hit a guy in the head as it did with bare knuckles. Now football is getting it: the athletes are so well-suited to the game now that the safety equipment is no longer adequate to protect other players. It sucks, but it’s a foreseeable result of the drive to have better players.


38 posted on 12/12/2012 8:12:54 PM PST by Little Pig (Vi Veri Veniversum Vivus Vici.)
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To: narses

Dumb question, but would there be so many concussions if people didn’t wear so much plastic padding? Are what necessitates so much padding the helmets themselves? Has anyone compared the likelihood of serious injury, including concussion, between playing football with hard-shell helmets and so much padding to playing football with only soft-shell helmets?


39 posted on 12/12/2012 8:17:26 PM PST by dangus
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To: relictele
I grew up in the bad old days when we had high dives, monkey bars ,swings, big slides, etc. I've have lived on Japan and I can say they have the best public parks. If the parks in the U.S. were like the parks on japan there would be a gang of lawyers hanging around handing out their business card.


40 posted on 12/12/2012 8:40:26 PM PST by BBell (And Now for Something Completely Different)
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