Posted on 05/05/2012 1:03:49 PM PDT by MinorityRepublican
With the apparent suicide of NFL great Junior Seau, who played 20 years in the world's most violently glamorous sport, American football is dying.
It's about time. The nationally televised gambling and meat-rendering factory cannot survive without new players.
And the parents of future players are asking themselves this:
Is football worth it for my child?
(Excerpt) Read more at articles.chicagotribune.com ...
Idiotic article.
Point #1. — Ghettos are filled with kids that would give their left nut to play in the NFL. The will do anything to get into pro sports, and if they can’t get into the NBA, then to the NFL it is. The very idea that they MIGHT get dementia from concussions or from steriods when they are 40 years old is going to be the last thing from their minds as they watch 14 year old friends and relatives shot down dead in gang wars. Believe me, they will take the $10 million career pay and dementia at 40 every day of the week.
Football is not going anywhere.
Point #2. — The NFL has never been more aggressive in reducing contact and concussions and injuries in its history.
Just an idiotic article. US Football is not going anywhere, but maybe up, or maybe expanding overseas. It is a great spectator sport and there is no loss of college players fighting to make it to the NFL. Any other suggestion is laughable.
Hey Kass, the Super Bowl is generally the highest rated telecast of the year. Every year. Let me know when it slips to #2 routinely, and I might start to consider listening to you.
http://www.nytimes.com/2010/12/20/business/media/20ratings.html
That was more likely for the huge TV audience for whom the Superbowl was the first and last game they watched for the year.
That was more likely for the huge TV audience for whom the Superbowl was the first and last game they watched for the year.
That was more likely for the huge TV audience for whom the Superbowl was the first and last game they watched for the year.
That was more likely for the huge TV audience for whom the Superbowl was the first and last game they watched for the year.
I prefer the lingerie league.
If senseless death and violence were enough to deter parents from allowing their children to participate in an activity, the cesspool known as “hip hop” and/or “rap” music would be as dead as the buggy whip industry.
Rush predicted this some time ago.
It’s a crock. Try dong this on ice for 45 seconds at a clip for 60 minutes. With all the banging going and hitting going on and there are fewer injuries and concussions... Why?
Here is the problem. You have artificially enhanced players who now run faster, are stronger with emotions that can barely be checked. It comes down to steroids.
The fact that the punishment is ridiculous gives football teams and it’s players a positive risk/reward ratio which makes the fines and potential loss of a players life after his career ends worth it.
One other factor needs to be considered. These are warriors and when their career ends the boredom and emotional trauma of it are very stressful.
Here are the top 50 Neilson rated telecasts of all time. You tell me if Football is not here to stay. 9 of the top 16 are Super Bowls. 22 of the 50 are Super Bowls with one being a NFC Championship. No other sport even rated a top 50. No TV show is listed more than twice. Roots is the only non football telecast that is listed more than twice. The Superbowl simply DOMINATES TV ratings. Nothing comes close.
1 -- M*A*S*H Special
2 -- Dallas (Who Shot JR)
3 -- Roots Pt. VIII
4 -- Super Bowl XVI Game
5 -- Super Bowl XVII Game
6 -- XVII Winter Olympics - Wed-2
7 -- Super Bowl XX Game
8 -- Gone With The Wind-Pt.1
9 -- Gone With The Wind-Pt.2
10 -- Super Bowl XII Game
11 -- Super Bowl XIII Game
12 -- Bob Hope Christmas Show
13 -- Super Bowl XVIII Game
14 -- Super Bowl XIX Game
15 -- Super Bowl XIV Game
16 -- Super Bowl XXX Game 17 -- ABC Sunday Night Movie (The Day After)
18 -- Roots Pt. VI
19 -- The Fugitive
20 -- Super Bowl XXI Game
21 -- Roots Pt. V
22 -- Super Bowl XXVIII Game
23 -- Cheers
24 -- Ed Sullivan
25 -- Super Bowl XXVII
26 -- Bob Hope Christmas Show
27 -- Roots Pt. III
28 -- Super Bowl XXXII Game
29 -- Super Bowl XI Game
30 -- Super Bowl XV Game
31 -- Super Bowl VI Game
32 -- XVII Winter Olympics - Fri-2
33 -- Roots Pt. II ABC
34 -- Beverly Hillbillies
35 -- Roots Pt. IV
36 -- Ed Sullivan
37 -- Super Bowl XXIII Game
38 -- Academy Awards
39 -- Super Bowl XXXI Game
40 -- Super Bowl XXXIV Game
41 -- Thorn Birds Pt. III
42 -- Super Bowl XLII Game
43 -- Thorn Birds Pt. IV
44 -- NFC Championship Game
45 -- Beverly Hillbillies
46 -- Super Bowl VII Game
47 -- Super Bowl XLI Game
48 -- Thorn Birds Pt. II
49 -- Super Bowl IX Game
50 -- Super Bowl X Game
Speaking of dying... I “lol” @ your disgusting worthless plague of a city and its communist citizens Chicago.
If anything, helmets will be enhanced to reduce the problem, along with perhaps some more rule changes. Equipment has already changed radically over the years, this will be no big deal and won’t really affect the nature of the game.
Seau was a personal favorite of mine, I’ll never understand why he did what he did. Even if there were a medical problem, you would think he’d look for a medical solution rather than not getting to see his children grow up. Tragic indeed.
For many decades, baseball was called “America’s pasttime”. It was entrenched long before football became popular. Basketball is the new kid on the block.
Because Bob for Texaco is dead.
And a BIG thank you for not posting the youtube video on that. If I never see that clip again and Lawrence Taylor beating on his own helmet in horror, it will be too soon.
YOU HUSH YO' MOUF!
“Joe Theismann got his lower leg snapped live on national television, during a Monday Night Football broadcast.”
That hurts just remembering watching that...and the replay...and the next one...and the next one....
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