That doesn’t mean they’ve turned their backs on high school or college ball.
College Football....ain’t the NFL.
Will anyone watch a flag football game in a billion dollar stadium?
Will any network cover a flag football game in a stadium paid for by tax payers?
In the fwiw dept, football is a collision sport and it feels good to collide.
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It’s survived me not caring about any kind of football since the early 80s.
Same for all the rest of sports.
So how is the fall of the National Felons League going to bring down the USA? Get real. I don’t remember its part in the Revolution, War of 1812, WWI or WWII.
We have bigger things to worry about. To hell with the NFL.
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Baseball is the real American sport. It requires intelligence and skill in addition to athletic ability.
Football has always changed. Forward pass. Helmets. TV Timeouts. Instant replay. The list is endless.
Your game is too dangerous to participants’ brains and its time is coming to an end. There are plenty of other sports, it’s not important.
He’s absolutely right. The pussification rules passed a few years ago (no targeting, launching or horsecollar tackling) have dramatically worsened the game. Hard hits are supposed to be what football is all about.
The CTE issue is far from proven. So far all they have are a small self selected group of longtime NFL players who thought they had the condition. That’s hardly a random sample and says nothing about College or High School players who haven’t taken nearly as many hits and haven’t hit nearly as hard as NFL players are routinely subject to.
The sport has been played not for years, not for decades but for generations. If it were “that” bad....if it led to an epidemic of brain damage, don’t you think we would have noticed it by now? Generations of players have played the sport, gone on to have full lives, grown old and died. Its not like we have no data. We are talking about literally tens of millions of American men who have played over the course of 4-5 generations of football.
Yet because of some sensationalist reporting about a group of NFL players who already thought they had a problem, we are to ruin the sport? Ridiculous. By the way....the league minimum salary in the NFL is $440,000 annually. If you feel the risk is too great, then the solution is simple. Just forego that money and don’t play. The rest assume the risk. They are damned well compensated for it.
CTE is as real as global warming. When a movie comes out before there have been studies done for a few years, you know it is bovine excrement.
Until colleges (who collect taxpayer dollars) get their asses out on the field to show respect to the country during the anthem instead of hiding in the locker room, they can kiss my ass.