I realize the NFL has a ‘draft’, but I don’t seem to recall anybody ever being forced to go play the game
Yeah, yeah, yeah. Another pajama boy weights in.
Nobody is forced to play the game. You are offered big bucks and you take your chances. Sometimes you are the bug, sometimes your are the windshield.
football is now so violent because we've allowed the players to bulk up beyond comprehension and we reward them one way or another....
its like added weight to a boxing glove....
I wish all of these media outlets, that want to get rid of football, would put up or shut up. Stop covering football in your papers and television programs. Stop profiting off other people’s suffering/brain injuries.
I guess they’ll start begging donations on television for “Wounded Football Warriors”. With your donation you get a blanket that’s designed with an x-ray. Call today.
There is no question. Football players are gladiators. They illicit the same emotions in modern Americans that were elicited in ancient Rome. Boxing, MMA. NASCAR are much the same. Despite the risks and waivers there is no shortage of young men more than willing to sacrifice their well being to participate at all levels of the “sport”. The height of hypocrisy are college presidents who so frightened that the students may hear “offensive speech” but send their student mercenaries on the football fields to suffer lifelong disabling injuries all for a few bucks.
Start over and go back to leather helmets.
Well, it's a free country, doc. Live it, learn it, love it...
Get rid of the helmets. And teach people how to tackle. Rugby players know how to tackle. All the helmet does is make people think its a weapon.
“star quarterback Joe Theisman”
Huh? Journeyman, at best.
What about boxing?
Thiesman’s leg break during a game, is maybe the most cringe-worthy live TV moment I can ever remember.
He should weigh in on the health impact of man-on-man sexual relations.
Some ‘choices’ are protected and promoted while others with a tradition in this country are being challenged and vetoed.
Maybe just like in NASCAR, which has done some really great things like the Hans Device (sp?) and safer barriers and such - the NFL needs to spend some serious bucks on the science of armoring these guys up - or dial it back (flag football would be SO boring though). I love football but am also concerned about the hits and the injuries.
Working the coal mines are dangerous
Working as a taxi driver is dangerous
Working as a policeman or fireman is dangerous
Working as a doctor is dangerous
Working as a soldier is dangerous
Working on the oil rigs are dangerous
I guess Obama really cares because he has been getting rid of all our jobs!
“The most complete data series on fatalities comes from the USA. From the 1991/92 to the 2003/04 season inclusive, a total of 469 traumatic deaths have been recorded within the boundaries of ski resorts in the US”
http://www.ski-injury.com/intro
But skiing is something the “Elite” do so injuries and deaths from it will not get talked about like football.
So many sports have upped the “extreme” sport factor almost every passing year.
Skiing, ski jumping, downhill mountain biking, to name a few rather benign ones with out body contact.
Tow in surging 70 ft. waves. 100 ft. waves.
Then go take every Wednesday off and play golf, you will be safe there.