Just because you weren't good at something or didn't like it doesn't mean it's stupid and in need of obsessively resentful criticisms.
Worse, the commercialization of sports requires grotesquely oversized guys to the point that we seem to be combining sumo with football.
Bingo! Another evil of capitalism. It's commercialization rather than U.S. RDA for vitamins and minerals in foods that has caused the surge in physical sizes over the past two generations.
These players are paid huge salaries and contribute absolutely nothing to the nation except a strange spectacle and taxes,
They are entertainers and are paid based on their entertainment value.
Compare that to something worthwhile, like serving your country in the combat arms: real achievement, real risk, real courage, small paycheck.. Good guys get protected, bad guys get defeated. Best of all anyone of reasonable physical condition can join and be part of the team. No comparison.
Are you suggesting that parents take their 16 year old sons to the local armed forces recruiting office and sign the paperwork to enlist them in the military?
Like I said earlier, what’s the point of watching football unless you like watching other men exercise?
What's the point in watching a movie unless you enjoy watching people play pretend?
The one that caught my attention: "Are you suggesting that parents take their 16 year old sons to the local armed forces recruiting office and sign the paperwork to enlist them in the military?
So you think that our children should avoid service? It should just be "somebody else's kids" to go through the rigors of training, the deprivation, the fear and the losses of combat? Interesting view from alleged "patriots". We don't take 16 year olds, by the way, though our young people could do far worse than spend a couple of years in service, learning about the rest of our country.
You make the mistake of thinking that I don't like football (or most any other professional sport) because I couldn't play - I did fine on our high school football and track teams. My change of attitude came during my war - Vietnam - when I saw perfectly able-bodied people playing a kid's game or just watching others play the kid's game for them while we took everything on ourselves.
I came to the realization that we American talk a good game about "sacrifice" and preserving freedom but fall a long ways short when it comes to actually risking anything themselves.
Professional football is an escapist freakshow. Fighting for your country is reality. Those young men and women who are recovering in our hospitals from combat are the real heroes where every second wasted on watching the NFL is time and money wasted.