Posted on 08/08/2012 4:58:42 AM PDT by Kaslin
George Will proving once again that he’s a RINO wimp—As if further evidence was needed.
another example of the MSMs (female part)ification of America. as prescribed by the _resident, Dhmmicrats, and RINOs in general...and that means YOU TOO Justice Roberts, and all the Beltway buttwipes and their (female part)whipping wives.
They are coming for your guns and football. It is all part of the plan to make you a sheeple.
99 Reasons Why Baseball is Better Than Football - Thomas Boswell
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/563814/posts
he’s partisan...a baseball fanatic.
My son plays college football (Division 1 school), he’s senior this year....
He’s had three concussions. Laughingly, the worst one occurred in the locker room when the guys were “horsing” around, tripped, hit his head, split his scalp wide open.....rushed to the emergency room....
I’ve seen the good, bad and other in football as he’s grown up....
George Will is correct from one standpoint, their bodies take tremendous abuse, but unlike his hypothesis, they heal....
All sports damage the body when performed at a high level of competition. Check out a runners knees, hips and ankles. Or look at a baseball pitchers shoulder....
George Will’s solution is to perhaps to have sanctioned NCAA pillow fighting competition....
What a wimp!
It doesn’t take a medical genius to recognize that beating a body takes in pro football isn’t good. Now, if an adult is willing to do that to himself, that’s his business. I just hope there are more safety restrictions in highschool games.
One person here suggested the problem with all the injuries may be the amount of safety gear. It encourages players into using themselves as missiles.
Personally, I won’t watch. It’s too much of a blood sport for my tastes. Give me a baseball games or nascar. Now those are REAL all Amerixan sports.
If anyone actually reads what Will wrote he is somewhere between advocating the end of football and simply, as I have been saying for some time, acknowledging that it will not survive societal changes as is.
The NFL game has already changed for the worse. First we were reviewing plays to make sure “they got the calls right”. Now we review plays to second-guess the level of violence in a particular hit. If found to be excessive the player is punished. How can this be good for the game?
It’s gotten to the point where cornerbacks refuse to tackle and safeties are pulling up on hits. In the open field the game is turning into a form of the game that we used to refer to as “rough touch”. Boring! May as well watch Soccer.
George Will is a known fan of baseball and has written books on baseball, not just politics. This would be like the Chairman of GM writing about the problems at Ford.
I don’t want any pro football player to have lasting injuries for my amusement.However,pro football is getting
so bad that the fans will simply stop watching.
TV eventually destroyed boxing. Now you have MMA and just look at how short the ‘careers’ are there. The NFL is committing suicide. So what will happen? Initially the college game will benefit. But if football goes away then some other game (Hockey?) will rise. Then again, Hockey is battling with how to deal with “concussion syndrome”, too.
I’d see some hockey hits on sports center and marvel that the player was killed or paralyzed.
Retired players are still going to get a multi-billion dollar settlement.
Baseball is a pastoral game; football is a game of industrial organization. Will longs for an America wherein the bowtie is again fashionable. It’s the equipment which causes the injuries; rugby and Aussie rules players don’t suffer the trauma.
Baseball is a pastoral game; football is a game of industrial organization. Will longs for an America wherein the bowtie is again fashionable. It’s the equipment which causes the injuries; rugby and Aussie rules players don’t suffer the trauma.
Baseball is a pastoral game; football is a game of industrial organization. Will longs for an America wherein the bowtie is again fashionable. It’s the equipment which causes the injuries; rugby and Aussie rules players don’t suffer the trauma.
LOL! Yeah, George Will as the latter-day Connie Mack. Wearing a suit & bow-tie while managing from the dug-out!
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