Posted on 08/17/2016 8:09:36 AM PDT by rktman
Seems to me Tim Tebow has spoken plenty. But he doesn’t count.
I don’t need athletes and actors telling me about politics anymore than I need politicians hosting sports talk shows.
Nice to hear Cam and Aaron seem to agree.
What’s most amazing to me is that ESPN has turned into a pro-gay advocacy organization as well. Their hosts are utterly insufferable on that particular issue. Nothing makes me reach for the remote faster.
I despise every one of those moronic bas*****.
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Ditto.
Actually since I cut the cord 5 years ago, I don’t even do that but do miss Fb.
Of the five Rams in that unfortunate picture, four of them are no longer with the team. Only Tavon Austin remains.
Hey, try getting them to speak English on any issue w/a sentence of more than 4 words!
Correction: Kenny Britt changed from #81 to #18, and is also still with the team.
ESPwhat?
Not bowing low enough to the faggot “god?”
Every liberal is a totalitarian leftist thug.
Go streaming an stop supporting leftist thugs at ESPN.
http://www.espn.com/nfl/story/_/id/9246975/chris-kluwe-minnesota-vikings-released
This is what happens to NFL players that speak out.
Richard Sherman talked about how he didn’t care for the black lives matter movement and Michael Smith and Jemele Hill of ESPN his and hers had a complete fit about it
Can’t they just throw the damn ball?
Can’t we just watch a guy swing a bat without it referencing any social BS?
You know, lots of people watch sports to forget about the troubles of the world for awhile.
If the NFL gets any more involved in social issues than it is, I will abandon it as a hobby. No matter how good the on-field play is, I simply can’t take any more nausea-inducing political propaganda.
ESPN trying to save it’s bacon by strangling the NFL into it’s politically correct looserdom. Fox is working now on a sports network to vie against ESPN. It won’t be politically correct.
Coaches and trainers are SUPPOSED to keep their athletes from having those injuries. Athletes OUGHT to allow their bodies to recuperate and REST. They don't because they ARE pushed. They themselves aren't mature enough to know that.
I've been an athlete for all my life but LEARNED, somewhere in my mid-thirties that RESTING a full 24 hours, with NO activity whatsoever, is a very good thing for the body AND the mind.
Because of this I CAN still go 100% in my favorite sport.
Now I am old and I need TWO days of FULL rest, sometimes three but it's worth it to be able to keep on playing full out.
It's not rocket science...it's maturity.
Well, I did say knee, back and neck injuries...some more debilitating than others. Of course, if they weren't very GOOD at it, then they probably didn't play much. BENCH WARMERS probably WON'T have hidden injuries. You know, the ones that were NEVER chosen for any team.
Were you one of those?
But what do I know? I was in the profession for 45 years. YOU know much more about it, I guess, because, well, just because you don't want to think that I actually KNOW what I'm talking about. Fine with me.
Nobody is supposed to do the impossible. The nature of hidden injuries is that they’re HIDDEN. Little over stress here, little over stress there, next thing you know there’s a knee problem. Most visible injuries are just the straw that broke the camel’s back, that one micron too far. The fact of the matter is everybody’s body is different, different genetics, different history, different strengths, different weaknesses. There’s simply no way to prevent injuries, wear and tear is part of life.
Actually it IS rocket science, as your own anecdote proves. The situation not only changes from person to person but from year to year within the same person. In the long run only person that can prevent hidden injuries is the athlete themselves, because they’re the only one who knows how tired and stiff they are, they’re the only ones that feel that little twinge, they’re the only ones with direct communication with the body. Problem is the body doesn’t speak English, so by the time you realize that little ache meant “slow down a bit” you’ve probably been injured. Maturity comes with a price, a price young athletes have not had the opportunity to pay.
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