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American football is too dangerous, and it should be abolished
The Guardian ^
| Monday 4 January 2016
| Dave Bry
Posted on 01/31/2016 9:12:38 AM PST by MinorityRepublican
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To: MinorityRepublican
Whether football continues or not will be up to the parents. More and more parents are putting their kids in other sports and you’re starting to see growth in soccer and lacrosse.
To: MinorityRepublican
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posted on
01/31/2016 9:47:05 AM PST
by
Vendome
(Don't take life so seriously-you won't live through it anyway - "Enjoy Yourself" ala Louis Prima)
To: centurion316
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.And not end up getting shot or in prison.
To: MinorityRepublican
Meanwhile, the Guardian (aka the work therapy program for London's Bethlehem Hospital) advocates for the continued importation of millions of Muslims into Britain. The last time I checked, decapitation is more damaging to the brain than football.
Guardian, I diagnose you to be gridironophobic. Since you have a phobia, I can ignore, laugh at or morally condemn your opinion and you have to shut up. Those are the rules.
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posted on
01/31/2016 9:47:30 AM PST
by
KarlInOhio
(An orange jumpsuit is the new black pantsuit.)
To: MinorityRepublican
oh goody! We can now become fans of the world’s most popular sport... soccer! Where it’s the fans, not the athletes, who get beat up, trampled, or killed. Ninety boring minutes for a 1-0 score!
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posted on
01/31/2016 9:50:16 AM PST
by
DennisR
(Look around - God gives countless, indisputable clues that He does, indeed, exist.)
To: 48th SPS Crusader
Does everything need a /sarc tag?
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posted on
01/31/2016 9:50:46 AM PST
by
central_va
(I won't be reconstructed and I do not give a damn.)
To: MinorityRepublican
feh...
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posted on
01/31/2016 9:50:55 AM PST
by
Chode
(Stand UP and Be Counted, or line up and be numbered - *DTOM* -w- NO Pity for the LAZY - Luke, 22:36)
To: 1rudeboy
Yes, much like parents are not forced to place their kids in peewee football programs. Thatâs the issue: where does football go when the available pool of players begins to dry up?slavery and gladiators? Idk, kids still play, it's still fun. If people quit paying ( assuming it is not made illegal by government mandate) then maybe it should go away as a professional sport.
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posted on
01/31/2016 9:51:54 AM PST
by
D Rider
To: DennisR
I don’t believe anyone is being forced to play football.
To: DennisR
That's an interesting economic concept: instead of paying to watch people knock themselves senseless and become mentally retarded in the process, actually participate in the risk . . . .
In any case, enjoy the rest of the thread, because:
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posted on
01/31/2016 9:55:26 AM PST
by
1rudeboy
To: MinorityRepublican
Rugby should be abolished - no one watches it;
Cricket should be abolished - the one person watching fell asleep;
The Guardian should be abolished - just for sport.
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posted on
01/31/2016 9:56:29 AM PST
by
PIF
(They came for me and mine ... now it is your turn ...)
To: DennisR
Football is too war like for the wussies out there. Attacking, taking ground etc. All these do gooders want to abolish everything that could possibly hurt anything. There is growing pressure on equestrian sports too. Pretty soon it will be tiddly winks or nothing.
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posted on
01/31/2016 9:57:47 AM PST
by
Himyar
(Sessions: the only real man in D.C.)
To: MinorityRepublican
American football players are savages.
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posted on
01/31/2016 9:59:10 AM PST
by
RckyRaCoCo
(Political Correctness is a kool-aid drinking suicide cult)
To: txnativegop
Doesnât the Guardian have something in the UK it can report on? Apparently not, and therefore it pokes itsâ nose into American society.Probably because in the next few years the Jaguars are going to relocate to London.
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posted on
01/31/2016 9:59:52 AM PST
by
Starstruck
(I'm usually sarcastic. Deal with it.)
To: Himyar
Speaking of equestrian, I initially thought that those “crash vests” that automatically inflate when you detach from your saddle where pretty gay too . . . but then I came around to thinking that they are a good idea at the professional level.
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posted on
01/31/2016 10:01:42 AM PST
by
1rudeboy
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posted on
01/31/2016 10:02:12 AM PST
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1rudeboy
To: MinorityRepublican
Soccer is too boring and therefore must be abolished
To: MinorityRepublican
The European sport of football (soccer, here) has caused 100s of deaths among both players and spectators alike. Let’s ban this first and see how it goes over.
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posted on
01/31/2016 10:04:58 AM PST
by
OrangeHoof
(Obama - the AIDS virus for the American body politic.)
To: refermech
I don't believe anyone is being forced to play football. Those of the author's statist/collectivist mindset don't care. They want gov't to step in and abolish anything they either don't like (for whatever reason), hurts their delicate feelings, and/or deem dangerous to the collective. Europeans typically suffer from this insufferable statist do-gooderism at far higher rates than Americans, but there are plenty of them on this side of the pond as well.
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posted on
01/31/2016 10:05:05 AM PST
by
Mr. Mojo
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