Posted on 10/21/2012 7:45:36 AM PDT by chessplayer
Many protective mothers and fathers of Millennials aren't allowing their kids to play tackle football because of health risks. These attitudes could close the NFL’s pipeline to many talented players. But these concerns also have the potential to change the violent NFL culture for the better.
Professional football has been America’s favorite spectator sport since 1972 when baby boomers became the most important TV audience demographic. Steve Sabol, the genius behind NFL Films that helped to popularize the NFL in the 1960s, captured the drama and danger of pro football with his slow motion films of big violent hits backed by stirring music.
Pro football, depicted by Mr. Sabol as a confrontation between good and evil in which there can be only one winner, matched the values of baby boomers a half century ago. But this focus is not as appealing to the Millennial generation with its focus on win-win solutions and an instinct for avoiding confrontation.
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Except fans. Had to be pointed out.
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get rid of all pro sports. they all make zillions of dollars playing kid game and even tickets to a KU game are $79.00. how on earth can you even take your family out to the ball game
>>get rid of all pro sports. they all make zillions of dollars playing kid game<<
Those of us who believe in capitalism want the market to decide what stays and what goes.
I will pay a LOT of MY money to see an NFL game. Because, you know, it is MY money.
I saw a black & white photo years ago, taken in the early 50s IIRC. It showed a quarterback with a broken leg. Looking down on him was the guy who tackled him - smiling.
Ah, when football was football...
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Pro football, depicted by Mr. Sabol as a confrontation between good and evil in which there can be only one winner, matched the values of baby boomers a half century ago.
Jeez, there's a lot to wonder about in those sentences. A lot of the early fans were pre-boomers. The "greatest generation" and the "silent generation" were still an important demographic in the seventies.
The archetypal baby-boomers (student radicals and hippies -- never a majority, but certainly the people who come to mind when we think of baby boomers) may not have had the kind of relation to competitive sports that the writer says. A lot of the attitudes he attributes to "millenials" go back to those boomers.
In rugby we don't mess around we eat our dead!
That was a bumper sticker I used to have!
Yes I am crass & tasteless ! (Give me a break ! I played in the front 3 of "the pack"!)
I have improved somewhat with age due to aperiodic “training sessions” from my wife.
She tells me that with time I will eventually be fit for polite society.
Saw some Aussie Rules on cable. Couldn't figure out what was going on. It looked like the torments of the damned -- players writhing in agony all across the field. Every once in a while a player kicked the ball through some posts and won a random quantity of points. Maybe if I knew the rules, I'd appreciate it more.
Same around here. Friday night HS football is a big deal in my part of PA. Local TV and radio stations broadcast the games, there are traffic jams. In the town square of the little Lancaster County town I work in, they put posters of the local HS football team players on the street light posts, most of the players are white FWIW. The first time I drove through town and saw one of the posters, I thought it was a missing child poster, then I saw another and another.. : )
well glad you are ready to spring for it, I wouldn’t give those barbarians one thin dime. I take it you are a red blooded American male. I am a female and they can keep their stupid “professional” sports. Pay for if you want, gramps. I personally don’t think paying some thug a zillion dollars to hurt someone in public view is worthwhile. Do you buy porn too? Illegal drugs? Illegal sex? Should we just let the “market” dictate all that too? Where do we draw the line oh wise one...
You are equating illegal drugs with perfectly legal sports?
Get a grip, hon.
But you are the kind that also wants to ban toys in Happy Meals and drinks greater than 16 ounces. If you make them illegal then they are just like drugs.
Where do YOU draw the line, oh Nanny Stater?
No. you have the rules correctly. It like a looser version of Brockian Ultra-Cricket... :)
I love Big Gulps and I bought tons of toys and Happy Meals, so your beady little mind can’t tell me what to think. And my kids know how to backpack and shoot skeet. Guess what, you can’t lay a finger on me with your macho spiel. I have a football player son and the good coaches played smart, the dumb ones played tough. I have a son who boxed and did ROTC. My girl skates, plays field hockey and lacrosse. And they all ski and underwater dive. Oh, by the way, I like tennis and skiing and weigh 109, and am practically perfect in every way except one——————don’t suffer fools gladly.
Watch who you call Nanny, Gramps
Totally agree.
So you draw your nanny State mind at only the sports you don’t like, right Practically Perfect Polyanna?
I know your type. Too well.
Congratulations, liberal moms and dads. You just raised the next generation of Vichy French.
Ha! Just posted that to Facebook!
So true!
there should be more like me and less abusive and depraved mothers and wives and this world would be a better place. Clean up your act and you would appreciate the few like me
Or even cared as long as we were in the front yard when the streetlights came on.
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