Posted on 05/07/2012 2:33:57 PM PDT by Kaslin
I wonder how the suicide rate of the NFL compares to the suicide rate of the US.
Wikipedia says:
Though Seau "was never listed on an NFL injury report as having had a concussion", Seau's ex-wife Gina told the Associated Press after Seau's death that Seau sustained concussions during his career. "'Of course he had [sustained them]. He always bounced back and kept on playing.'" she said.
But if it wasn't his death that put this in the spotlight it would have been somebody else's.
I have the exact same mindset.
How Teddy Roosevelt Saved Football
"History is repeating itself. For whatever issues football has today, they are nothing like the controversy it experienced a little more than a century ago. Back then, injuries were an afterthought — it was the deaths that concerned people. In 1905, there were 18 of them, occurring everywhere from the college gridiron to neighborhood sandlots.
Horrified by the slaughter, a group of progressives crusaded to ban football. They formed a social and political movement whose ranks included the renowned Harvard President Charles W. Eliot, frontier scholar Frederick Jackson Turner, aging Confederate Gen. John Mosby and muckraking journalists."
Please don’t lump in Rugby with soccer. Rugby is a sport of equally vicious hits as football, a true team mentality, manliness, and more nationalism and country pride than ANY liberal could ever handle.
one of the few times Rush was so boring I turned him off in the first hour.
I know, but its appearance in the Ivies suggests that it has gazoot here in the States as a classier, class-proclamatory "non-football football", a way of saying "I'm better than football, football players will spend their lives as my lackeys, aaahahahaaaa!" Or words to that effect. Well, maybe that's Dad talking, who knows.
I'm just saying that that is being done here in the States -- with everything. Computer camps for kids, "feeders for Princeton", and all that.
there is a decent reason for that. The vast majority of plays involving a base runner going from second to third and third to home, involved a throw coming from behind him. People were getting beaned from behind, it’s not a fear of them getting hit as it comes off the bat as much as it is they get hit on a throw.
No problem. I have had the absolute joy of being deployed around some Brits during some of the major rugby tournaments. You could probably hear them screaming back in London. Listening to them belt out their anthem with such pride before matches is truly something to be a part of. Wish we did that, too, instead of letting whatever pop princess is popular at the time get her publicity time before our sporting events.
Football will never lose a fan base. If anything, we will become more rabid. Im not a pro fan. I prefer college. But diehards will not allow this sport to go to hell. A great portion of america lives for football. Their lives are based on travelling, tailgating, and attending games.
That is exactly what this is about.
Maybe in New Zealand and the islands in that part of the world. In the US, it's a snob's game -- "elegant violence," etc.
Even in Britain, it's soccer ("football") that's everyman's game. Rugby may be a rougher game, but a lot of ordinary Brits really loathe it.
For how the NFL treated Rush, the thugs(players), the “R” rated commercials during the Super Bowl and the overall liberal tilt of most of the owners. Let them try. At least they would be eating their own.
At one time, boxing was the most popular sport in America. That changed. As Gregg easterbrook likes to say, there is no rule that the NFL has to be popular.
This is a serious issue for football. It has to figure out a way to eliminate concussions or it will be marginalized as a sport.
Agreed. Knowing what we know now, my kids won’t play football. And when you have people like Kurt Warner saying that his kids won’t play football, there is a problem for football.
Naw ... boxing has just sucked the last 20 yrs. Otherwise, they would have been required to wear helmets. The sport lacks personality and competition..
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