Posted on 01/20/2014 11:16:36 AM PST by deks
Subtitle:
Fathers and sons have bonded over football games for generations, but today it's harder for parents to ignore the growing concerns surrounding the sport.
Excerpt:
My son, unfamiliar with the NFL’s pieties, assumed that hurting the other team’s players was the goal. To his untutored eye, the violence that guilt-ridden fans like myself decry was a feature, not a bug. He didn’t cheer the injuries; he’s too sweet for that. But despite my insistence to the contrary, I suspect the message he took from the experience was: The only thing you need to know about the large man writhing in agony on the screen is whether he’s on our team.
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And he has been talking about it for years. Reminds me of the parody on his show about the organization called Keep Our Own Kids Safe, aka KOOKS. Hitting a soccer ball with your head could be dangerous :)
It's a business, and if you don't look out, the lawyers will put it out of business. And there won't be any anti-trust exemptions to help you.
Why bother? They’ve gayed it up with disco diva dance singers, pink ribbons for abortionists, and refuse to air footage of cheerleaders shaking their hips.
Add to it the thuggary and billion dollar welfare queens who make dime off the public taxpayers.
WHO NEEDS IT?
They don't shake hips any more, they do booty call dances to raunchy rap lyrics, they start them on that in elementary school these days
I don’t think you have to be a pointy headed intellectual to look at the concussion data and second guess a decision to let a kid play football. I love the game, but permanent brain damage is a scary thing. The especially scary one to look at it Chris Henry, never missed a game due to head injury and yet had tons of brain damage they found in his autopsy, which probably contributed to him being such a discipline case.
The sissies (including our president), are all venting their fear of football.
Isn’t the pink for breast cancer?
And men can get breast cancer more are more likely to experience it in other forms.
> The sissies (including our president), are all venting their fear of football.
You’d think all those sissies would ooh and ahh over al those big healthy “bear” types
Who is this girly-man trying to fool? He doesn’t like football. He’s just piling onto the latest girly-man PC cause.
If the NFL takes measures to make the game a little safer, I may or may not agree.
For example:
Clipping, as a penalty, is a good thing.
Rough the passer, as a penalty, has been overused.
Ball-carrier lowering his head, as a penalty, is just wrong.
But when the NFL started issuing penalties for “taunting” and “excessive celebration”, that is a dead give-away that liberals are in charge of the game and it is only a matter of time.
The cheerleaders are BARELY broadcast on NFL games at all (you have to really look to see a glimpse) and on SeeBS yesterday (same network that aired Elvis on Sullivan over 55 years ago) they were shot strictly above the waist.
Car ads had women driving them with submissive men in the back. Technology ads had single parent women raising their kids.
I don’t own a tv anymore. I rarely watch professional sports, let alone on tv, anymore.
But I know what I see.
“They don’t shake hips any more, they do booty call dances to raunchy rap lyrics,”
Is that like ‘twerking’? ;-)
The guy who started all of this ‘concussion’ stuff was an ex-NFL’er who then became a pro wrestler. He suffered head and neck injuries in pro-wrestling then for some unknown reason went after the NFL instead of pro-wrestling.
I want to see a specific color and ribbon campaign for testicular and/or prostate cancer during sporting events instead of every other commercial being a ED ad.
“excessive celebration”
I would like to see ALL celebrations be made against the rules, period.
These are, after all, professionals. I wonder what my boss would have said if I had jumped up and started dancing just because I did a good job. I would have been terminated on the spot!
Besides, all of these celebrants and ‘dances’ look GAY!
Or was able to have a child with a woman.....
The penalties are rigged to generate more offense, not a fair game. People equate high scores with better football. No telling how many RB’s and WR’s I see stiff arm and put their hands in the defenders face mask (and in slow motion you can see the pull on it) but it is never called. Let a DB put his hands even close and it is flagged. Defender tackles with his head and he is flagged, but let a RB hit the hole and put his head down and hit a defenders helmet and it is “hard running”. Hypocritical BS. Make helmets lighter and take away/shrink most pads and they will form tackle again.
Pass interference spot foul is wrong in so many ways and has changed game outcomes in the wrong. 15 and a 1st is good enough. Last two minutes is always throwing deep hoping for the flag because you spent the previous 48 minutes playing like crap.
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