Posted on 08/09/2013 4:55:05 AM PDT by Dysart
The latest fad among football sportswriters and commentators seems to involve crowing about head injuries and long-term health effects from playing football.
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All this teaches a lesson to the children: private, individual action is dangerous and should be avoided. Life must be lived within the guardrails, carefully planned and safeguarded by society.
Even more distressing to the left is that sports started as a means of training for soldiers. That is why football is so appealing to America; it is a he-man sport, a vestige of the old America, where an association of free men stand together in battle. Yes, team effort is required, but there is also plenty of room for heroics, and the individual may make a huge difference.
But at football's core is a physicality bordering on violence, and to the left, that is anathema -- an atavistic impulse that must be squeezed out of our children.
So instead of a healthy game of tackle football at recess, liberals substitute Ritalin and maybe a good heated game of tag.
Consider the war against dodgeball. Progressives fret that it is traumatizing children and have been systematically banning the game. Why? Nobody ever gets hurt from dodgeball, but Progressive educators still want it gone. That is because of the actual acts performed in the game: one physically tries to hit another. The goal of the left has been to make physical aggression taboo; thus, dodgeball, which teaches children to be physically aggressive, must go.
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The day is going to come where the topic of “secretive discussion” will be why we allowed these global thugs to get away with what they were doing. Why were we paralyzed? What were we waiting for?
I figure we are always waiting for the next useless fixed election. In our hearts we now know that it is a losing battle, especially when the outcomes can be fixed. But you have to admit that pinning our hopes for every 2 or 4 years has worked to keep the sheeple grazing instead of fighting for freedom to be restored.
Lets face it, other than a few good men and women in Congress, counting on the majority who are not good men or women, why would we expect them to do the right thing?
Before you know it, sixteen years has passed and everything just gets worse.
I think there are movements within movements. Letty football aficionados will be assimilated against it! FORWARD.
I think the ability to get in a car, and drive by map, is also uniquely American. GPS is nice, especially around some cities, but I think it's ruining basic map-reading skills.
In other countries, people rely on mass-transit, and neatly laid-out railways. The state will take you where you need to go. Do not ask "what's at the end of that road?" If a train doesn't take you there, you don't need to be there!
That's saying a mouthful. I'd like to thank everyone who made it possible. I've stood on the shoulders of Giants. Heh Get it?
What is killing football is the takeover of the game by the thugs.
When you operate at that level, you can end up being a bit limited.
This is not a right-left issue. There is a real problem, especially with lineman and the NFL has put its head in the sand.
I’ll bet you didn’t know that almost every retired lineman from the NFL that has played for more than 5 or 6 seasons does at least 3 hours of stretching in bed in the morning just so they can get up. Then they take another 3 hours of stretching to make it through the day. Many are on heavy pain medication. And the problem is that people don’t know it.
I’m not for more regulation, I know it’s hard to feel sorry for millionaires, but young men should clearly know what they are getting into. It is negligence on the part of the NFL for not clearly identifying the long-term health prognosis of those who take and give a pounding on the line.
The problem is actually made worse by the pads and helmets. It allows them to deliver more punishing blows with less risk of immediate injury, but subjects the spine to repeated impacts that will guarantee long-term devastating effects.
This train left the station with seatbelt laws.
Many freepers embraced and continue to embrace that statism and now have hubris to whine about this lessor constriction.
“Really? So what are they doing about gang-bangers, drive-by shooters, “flash” mobs, black-on-black murde, black-on-white murder, etc, etc? NOTHING!”
That’s cultural. To comment on that would of course be racist!
“Useful idiots”.
It is a team effort
May I ask... Based on your assertion, how did you obtain your brain damage?
“Soccer can produce terrible injuries too. But you can see it is not under assault.”
Yes, like fans murdering each other in the stands, killing players, refs, etc.
The right's view is that people have the right to pursue their happiness (or employment) versus the left's perverted notion that this pursuit must be restricted or overseen by some "pansified" clueless bureaucracy or elites. The right's view is that an individual takes responsibility for his or her own actions, versus the left's demented contention that they are somehow too stupid to do so.
Football is a great game, but it will soon be as exciting as roller derby if the libtards (and people like you) keep chipping away at it.
Instead of true form tackling it is all about the big hit and the “oooh” factor.
He is partially correct. Football today is close to gladiator games. Much like NASCAR where some watch for the wrecks, some watch football for the big hit.
I see lots of office QB’s that spend all day Monday reliving their high school days talking about how they would have done such and such if they played. It is quite amusing. (and yes I played when younger)
I teach all my kids to read maps. My older boys and I hunt in the mountains every year and I will say I carry a GPS for backup but I have a USGS map at the ready and all our planning is on those.
I completely agree and share your pain.
After many months of study and contemplation on the ills that are affecting this nation, I may (emphasis on “may”)have struck upon an explanation. However, no solution comes to mind.
A brief summary of what I’ve discovered.
1) The US is a battle ground of a culture war that has its roots in the 1890’s and the war is one of Communist Marxists versus those in the US that have cleaved to the God-centric values of the Founders of the United States, i.e. the idea that certain rights are inalianable and are God given.
2) Competing Philosophies are at the heart of the matter and may be simply summed up as 1) A Philosophy which puts Man at the center of the Universe, evolving into Man-god. (Darwinian Materialists) versus 2) A Philosophy wherein a creator God authors and orders Life.
3) Most all of us remember from our educations the battle having been formally engaged in the Scopes Monkey trial; the evolutionists won. That set the stage for the triumph of the Darwinian Materialists to take over the education system.
4) Since the Communist take over of the US education system, all subsequent battles have been rear guard defensive battles with the God Centric forces always, slowly losing ground.
5) The MSM, the political theatre of the elections, news and Science debates have cleverly obscured the underlying culture war such that in the daily noise and confusion, most all people have not only lost focus on the underlying Philisophical Culture War, they’re no longer aware of the fact that it exists.
So, your observation that 16 years pass and everything just gets worse is true and the root cause of that is that as a “culture” the US have devolved into the fastest developing Pagan Nation in the history of humanity.
Its a set up for the establishment of a culture of death which will ultimately collapse in a cataclsym of genocide. The genocide has already commenced in the US with the killing of millions of unborn fetuses. It will progress with the instituion of euthanasia to kill off the aged to save the Social Security system. And lest people suggest this is some bizaare conspiracy theory, I’d say look around you at the news.........Pro-Abortionists screaming “Satan Loves Us” in the Texas State Capital Building. The spray painting of “Satan Loves Us” in the defilement of Churches.
Its in our faces! The Evil is coming out of the shadows and openly proclaiming its presence.
And all the while the MSM blathers on about Kim Kardashian.
That is a far cry from people complaining that their favorite sport to watch might be made safer and reduce their entertainment. Those people that dedicate a disproportionate amount of their lives watching others participate in sports and then have the gall to complain need to get off the couch and go play instead. They can play any and all sports just the way they want without any interference from a ruling body.
I blame ESPN....it’s all about getting on SportsCenter.
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