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, its 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 kickoffI mean, youre 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 its kind of obvious, when you can get some speed up, said Butkus.
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Neither my mother nor my sister approve of this alleged chickification. I showed them this story and they were quite adamant in their disapproval.
Just go to Flag football and be done with it.
The reset is coming, and degenerate Americans with a license to steal issued by State bar associations are not going to be pleased.
Spot on
Next watch for the Prius NASCAR series sponsored by Kotex.
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Now that’s funny.
Video killed the radio star - Lawyers killed the NFL.
on you!..From us that play it...*G*
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.
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.
That’s insane. Next thing you know, they’ll have them trying to dodge dandelion seeds that are floating through the air . . .
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.
Let’s just have the coin toss, game over. Nobody gets hurt.
(Tossing Nerf coins would be even safer.)
There’s always the CFL - lots of kicking there!
Geez, why don't they just dress football players up in panties and skirts if they don't want them to play football.
“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.
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.
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?
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