[Dysart]

Fear not, dear readers, I'm wearing my protective helmet and safety gloves while maintaining correct posture as I dispatch this essay for your betterment.

Do not attempt-- I repeat-- do not peruse this article without your prescribed reading glasses should you have reached forty (40) years, lest you incur eye strain and consequent headache, which may well lead to anxiety, depression and possible irritable bowel syndrome...to say nothing of the strain foisted upon your life partner in your proximity. This bodes ill for society at large, especially the children, many of whom, as you may predict, are already disadvantaged minorities. We must do all we can to level the playing field; and it naturally begins with sage guidance from the authorities.

[JudgemAll]

Another field we are surrendering to the liberal church to control.

America is pu$$ifying itself and only plays video games now, leaving government, feminists and communists and Islamists tell them what is right from wrong, how to play a physical game or not to play it.

Ridiculous.

[Soul of the South]

Yet the left nurtures the proliferation of an urban culture of drugs, preteen pregnancy, mob violence, and savage killing resulting in wasting of hundreds of thousands of individual lives as well as untold billions of dollars of property damage.

[DuncanWaring]

“On the fields of friendly strife are sown the seeds that on other days and other fields will bear the fruits of victory.”

— Gen. Douglas MacArthur

[dforest]

When it comes to football, the reason it is being destroyed is because it is uniquely American. The game for the global society is determined to be soccer. The NWO does not want global societies to have anything unique. Everyone must march to the same drummer. That would be what the ruling class deems we can enjoy.

Remember over the past years we sent football teams to other countries to see if it would catch on. It didn’t. So...football won’t be stopped, it will just be ruined and pansified until nobody watches and it fades into the past.

Soccer can produce terrible injuries too. But you can see it is not under assault.

[Durus]

Football and all of the other sports that some people waste their lives watching are nothing but modern bread and circuses. I Don't know how to break it to the couch quarterbacks but they are not made tougher by watching some kid get brain damage for their entertainment.

[JimRed]

I know lots of progressive liberal commie Marxist b@$t@rd$ who love their HS/college/NFL football. Are they not in on their leadership’s plot?

[NRA1995]

The goal of the left has been to make physical aggression taboo

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!

[expat1000]

Killing the joys of childhood': Parents’ fury as primary school pupils are taught about the dangers of twigs in health and safety lessons (UK but it's coming everywhere)

[babble-on]

You’ve done it, you’ve posted the stupidest paranoid screed ever to appear on Freerepublic, no mean feat! Congrats.

[M Kehoe]

The day that American families cease to produce warriors, is the day that America will cease to exist.

5.56mm

[TalBlack]

“it is a he-man sport, a vestige of the old America,”

He man is long since dead in America. Perhaps the author hasn’t noticed that when any newsworthy bravery is shown by a man or men the reports leave out any mention or indication of maleness involved. “The gunman was jumped by two brave citizens, (in another report) two individuals, (and in another report) two people. Over the course of a day I had no idea who the hell had grabbed the guy.

This has been going on for the better part of a decade now.

Why on earth so many different reporters (at least her in the NYC metro area) would act so seemingly in unison over so small a thing is really kind of creepy.

[Lou L]

I was in a store the other day, waiting to pay for my goods, when I heard some middle-aged women discussing the merits of GPS."I never go anywhere without it," said one. Another one said, "I wish I could just get in my car and it would drive me where I wanted to go," said another.

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!

[dfwgator]

What is killing football is the takeover of the game by the thugs.

[MrEdd]

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.

[gdani]

The people who are & will continue to be the most effective in changing football will be ex-players & doctors. Not lefties.

Not everything is a left-wing conspiracy.

[righttackle44]

Here's how to improve soccer:
1. All soccer players must stop wearing cute little shorts.
Must wear protective long pants and jersey overcovering shoulder pads, knee pads, thigh pads.
2. All soccer players must wear an approved helmet with approved face guard.
3. All soccer players must start each scrimmage from a formation requiring seven men on a front line.
4. All soccer scrimmages end when a player carrying the ball is tackled. 5. All soccer scrimmage must start with a designated center snapping or hiking the ball to a backfielder.
6. Remove the goal, divide the field into 10-yard units 100 yards long, bounded by two endzones with goalposts at the end of each endzone.
7. Don't allow Brits to play in, bet on, or comment on, the games.
8. Six points are scored when an eligible ball carrier crosses the goal lines after carrying the ball into, or catching a passed ball in, the endzone goal line, such effort be called a touchdown. Additional one- or two-points may be awarded after each touch, depending on the difficulty of the effort of the extra points.
There. Fixed the game of soccer.

[Fiji Hill]

So instead of a healthy game of tackle football at recess, liberals substitute Ritalin and maybe a good heated game of tag.

I have read that tag has been banned at some schools for being too violent.

[Ted Grant]

Football keeps getting bigger and bigger. This is partially because of the amazing growth among female fans. If this is the libs’ goal, they’re doing a terrible job at it.

Me, I seldom watch an NFL game. I prefer baseball and take the other six months off from sports.

I do think this article overstates things, though.

[USS Johnston]

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...

Nailing someone good with a ball -- wasn't that the whole point of dodgeball?? Lol -- it was like a firing squad. BUT, good for growing a set, which was the whole point of the exercise.

[j_tull]

Too late. I am going to try very hard to avoid the NFL this season. The thuggery and the new “no loweing your head before contact” rule change will put the outcome of games more completely in the hands of the officials, thus completing the leagues morph in the the NBA.