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 ...
So in your opinion my logos did not show his use of pathos to establish his ethos was a bunch of BS-os?
The NFL jumped the shark for me a few years ago. The referees determine the outcome of the games. The pass interference calls are ridiculous. Don’t get me started on the players. Criminal records for alot of them. Top it off with just plain boring games. College football is right behind. For the first time in my life I didn’t watch the super bowl, last year. Didn’t miss it. For me its all hockey all the time.
Go Blackhawks.
Over a hundred years ago, thee was a great hue and cry in America to abolish football because it was brutal and causing many injuries and deaths. Theodore Roosevelt stepped in and saved it by reforming away some of its most dangerous aspects and using protective equipment, such as head gear.
Our retards are better than their retards!
He accepts force feeding ducks so that he may eat their liver, but objects to men voluntarily choosing to engage in sport? This foie gras gumming wine swilling effete cheese eater has a great deal of damage inside his skull. He should keep his codswallop to himself.
Go look it up.
How many BILLIONs are Americans going to bet on the Super Bowl and you think the NFL is dying?
Yes, much like parents are not forced to place their kids in peewee football programs. That’s the issue: where does football go when the available pool of players begins to dry up?
I hate football. I will not watch it.
That said: Eff you, David Bry.
Two thoughts. One, when you cite a movie, a Hollywood entertainment production, you lose considerable credibility. I don't care what it is based on, it is produced to sell tickets and produce a return on that investment.
Two, while the NFL is entertainment (as are all professional sports, art, theater, etc.) it is also big business and a rather lucrative profession to go into. Every profession has risks. There is no profession I know of where you get paid to merely sit around and optimize your lifespan by eating, drinking, exercising just the right amount. Every job requires real work, mental, physical, whatever. They all take their toll in wear and tear on the body, stress and the associated medical problems that come with it, etc.
Are some of the consequences of an NFL career significant? Sure. Being career infantry is no picnic either. Nor is being a miner, construction laborer, etc. etc. The people that go into these fields understand the risks/rewards. No one is forcing them into these jobs - ie. a totalitarian fascist/socialist "the state deems you shall do this." In a free market economy they are free to choose these or other careers. Some people look at the options and go for it, others choose options that are less of a gamble.
The author should have left his bicycle helmet on.
When he removed it, his brains fell out.
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?
Prize Money. A lucky crew and their officers could become wealthy beyond their dreams with the capture of a man of war, or of a treasure laden merchantman. On the other hand, they could be injured, lost at sea, or divided in two by a cannonball. They took their chances.
Most good college players never make it to the NFL. Those who do have very short careers, sometimes never getting past their first NFL training camp. Injuries and cuts take their toll. Many who make a 54 man roster lose all their money and are broke within a year of two leaving the league. But, the dream is prize money, lots of it. Without football, most of these guys are going to be at the bottom rung of wage earners with a few lucky ones becoming Phys Ed teachers in the public school system. Architectural Engineers like Andrew Luck are rare indeed.
Notice that some Guardian journalist dweab with no skin in the game is more than willing to kill the golden goose.
That attitude is why you pussies lost to us twice and we had to bail you out of two wars
Is there a Super Bowl for cricket?
The Left needs to quit pussy footing around and just go ahead and abolish anything and anybody who might kill/hurt anybody else. All sports, guns, knives, baseball bats, cars, rope/twine/cord, zip ties, sheets, pantyhose, belts, swimming pools, bathtubs, any substance you can overdose on, any drink you can over-imbibe (includes water), plastic bags, fists .... just for starters, of course.
In the UK, where Rugby is played?
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