love Rugby! Rugby is a Hooligans game played by Gentleman where soccer is a gentleman's game played by hooligans... ever watch Hurling? rough sport, and like Hockey, everybody is armed.
Posted on 01/31/2016 9:12:38 AM PST by MinorityRepublican
We just completed another regular season of NFL football. Now let’s see if we can make it the last such season ever played. In its current state, professional football is immoral and we as a society should end its existence.
I imagine some fans of American football felt their hackles rise upon reading that. “Immoral†is a strong word, impossible to type from anywhere other than the saddle of a very tall horse, which isn’t the most comfortable seat for me.
I ate foie gras with Christmas dinner last week and enjoyed it immensely. I know that its production involves torturing ducks, which I think is wrong. In eating it, I am putting my own pleasure over the wellbeing of another living creature.
So I don’t take the moral high ground lightly. But I value human life more than avian life, so I will continue to scold those of you who put the pleasure you derive from watching football (and in so doing, paying money to the NFL, propagating its immoral practices) above the wellbeing of the players you’re watching play.
The damage football players suffer need not be debated at this point. The new Will Smith movie, Concussion, is based on one of the many books detailing the mountain of scientific evidence proving that the sport shortens lives.
Efforts to make it safer with better equipment will not work, because the damage happens inside the players’ skulls, when the brain sloshes around and smashes against its bone casing.
It’s the speed and power with which players ram their helmeted heads into other players that’s the problem. The game as it is played today kills the people who play it, period.
(Excerpt) Read more at theguardian.com ...
I reject the entire premise that the government has any business banning a sport because it is dangerous. Lots of people have dangerous jobs and dangerous hobbies.
The mortality rate for football players is 100%. The mortality rate of those who do not play football is 100%. We all die. What is sad is how many of us die without having really lived.
To enjoy the flavor of life take big bites. Moderation is for monks.
http://www.cnn.com/2015/07/14/health/youth-soccer-safety/
http://www.reuters.com/article/us-soccer-concussions-idUSKBN0G81VJ20140808
The chart in this Wiki article is dated, but interesting.
Eff off you Limey pansies.
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Sounds like the folks at Keep Our Own Kids Safe.
... And it looks like the NFL is planning a franchise in London in a few years...
I agree with you. But parents will think twice before allowing their sons play football.
Read the rest of the thread and get back to me. lol
Be Careful I hear if you if you watch European Football you could die from boredom.
The Guardian is an asinine publication and should be abolished.
We were taught to tackle head-on with the shoulder. We were also taught to fire out into the runner at the instant of contact to minimize our chances of being hurt. Tackling from the side we were to try to get our head in front of him and continue driving our shoulder through him to minimize his gain.
They should change to Rugby. An amazing game very similar football but with no helmets or pads or long pants.
It’s a real man’s game.
Football is a fun enough game to play I just can’t imagine ever sitting and watching an entire game. It’s a bunch of millionaire criminals working for a handful of billionaires running after a ball in a stadium built using our tax dollars.
love Rugby! Rugby is a Hooligans game played by Gentleman where soccer is a gentleman's game played by hooligans... ever watch Hurling? rough sport, and like Hockey, everybody is armed.
“Recent studies show that soccer has surpassed football,” said neurologist Peter A. Puzio from Augusta Health Neurology. “As soccer grows in popularity, so does the incidence of concussion. There’s not a perfect a number because it all depends on the severity of each one, but there is a cumulative effect of concussions. One is bad, but it depends on the severity of the concussions.”
And while many quit football, some athletes moved on to other sports such as soccer, or wrestling — both of which many people believe are less dangerous. But recent studies show they are just as risky as football
Maybe should try ROLLERBALL...??
So, we should give up American football with all its protective equipment in favor of soccer with no protective equipment.
Bloodiest “sports event” I’ve ever seen - drunken sailors from two British ships playing soccer on concrete in Hong Kong.
Soccer is a lot less violent today than it was, if you watch matches from the 60s and 70s, stuff that would get a straight Red card today pretty much happened without so much as a foul being given.
“The Royal Navy in the Age of Sail rarely had trouble finding enough volunteers for fill the muster rolls and good families used their influence and money to secure commissions for their sons. This in spite of the hard conditions of life a sea, the hazards of sickly seasons and bloody wars. Why?”
Press gangs? :)
Press Gangs are much more present in the movies than in reality. Impressment was allowed by law, usually during wartime, but the laws only applied to trained seamen, in other words merchant seamen who had the nautical skills needed by the Navy. An officer who pressed a subject not a seaman could be ruined by a civil court.
Yes, press gangs operated, especially right after a declaration of war when the Navy had to mobilize, but the facts are that the majority of sailors were volunteers. And, certainly press gangs broke the law despite the dangers of doing so. The undoubtedly fact that this occurred made for great political debates and inspired screen writers.
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