Posted on 03/20/2015 11:27:44 PM PDT by gasport
John Urschel is an offensive lineman for the NFL Baltimore Ravens whose Twitter handle is @MathMeetsFball. He has bachelor's and master's degrees in math, both with a 4.0 grade-point average. ... We should note, this isn't Urschel's first published math paper. He's also an avid chess player and hopes to be titled.
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By what measure? Probably almost 100% of NFL players are like this.
He enjoys hitting people who enjoy hitting him back.
OL aren’t prone to concussions because they normally block, not “hit people”.
Offensive line play usually doesn’t involve much high velocity helmet to helmet contact, more body on body short space contact with the winner having superior leverage through footwork and quickness. It’s not uncommon for a top lineman to have a twelve to fifteen year career, much longer than for any other position. Wide receivers, running backs, and just about any position on defense are where brain rattling hits are an integral part of the game and where careers tend to be short. Good line play is also like a complicated dance of five component parts working in perfect synchrony. That’s why it can take so long for an offensive line to develop “chemistry”. Not at all surprised that the guy on the Ravens with the demonstrably highest IQ is on the OL.
I can't relate. Where I come from, the objective - if you must hit someone - is to not be hit back.
Can't relate to wrestling either. If I'm going to be locked in a sweaty embrace with someone, it will be of the opposite sex.
“...it will be with someone of the opposite sex” is, I think, better grammar.
It looks Greek to me.
I’m lucky to be able to do basic math.That was a subject I always hated.So I’m happy for him.
By the way.Who says football players are dummies?
One fish two fish, three fish two fish
Yep their vulnerability usually lies south of the head. Especially vulnerable are the legs and feet.
Lineman usually don’t get the types of hits that cause concussions. They usually get back and leg problems.
I played about ten years as a center. The only time I got hit in the head was when someone fell on me.
Being able to live on less than 25,000 per year is frugal, even for a single man. When he marries all that will change. He may even realize he doesn’t have enough money in the bank, LOL.
You don't understand robust men, they love physical contact and contests.
Yes it is, you may not like fighting and football and contact sports, but it has always been part of life for men.
zatso? yer questioning my manhood because I don't like to be hit or roll around on the floor with another man?
phukken aye.
Questioning your manhood wasn’t in that post, but it sure is revealing that you had the defensive reaction that you did.
Your type is common too, but fighting, wrestling and contact sports has always been a part of being a robust man.
Actually it was. "Your type" is common, as well: ot-nay oo-tay ight-bray with too many syllables or abstract notions.
Would you like to spar some time at the gym?
You sure are a nasty little prig to be jumping out like this for no reason. First you insult normal male athletic behavior, then you become girly grammer police, and then you flip over and pretend that you want to fight a man who does enjoy such activity, after having taken the position that you don’t like such man against man activities.
You haven’t changed a bit since you were banned as “the invisib1e hand”.
Yes it has, and you can't dispute that with a pussy.
Nonsense.
Twenty years from now he may be dead from the adverse health effects of being a physically large out of shape man.
If alive he may experience nagging pain due to not having hung up the cleats after multiple injuries to the same area.
What he won't be is punch drunk because he never experienced (from football) anything close to the number of daily direct blows to his head that a boxer experiences over a career.
Spot On. Not that I’m a fan of sports figures as being role models but THERE’S one heck of a role model.
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