Posted on 01/29/2020 4:31:57 PM PST by Morgana
If you are encouraging your children to watch football, you may be a "crappy" parent. Football exposes players to the risk of brain damage, and the pro game discriminates against Colin Kaepernick and African American coaches. As a parent who subjects children to football's flaws, you may be a co-conspirator to their hedonism, cognitive dissonance and hypocrisy, alleges Time magazine senior writer Sean Gregory. His story, "Is it Unethical to Watch Football With Your Kids?" will appear in Time's February issue.
He begins:
As another super bowl approaches, I keep thinking about a clear September afternoon at MetLife Stadium, home of the New York Giants, and wondering if I’m a crappy dad.
Gregory beats himself up throughout his tortured account of football's evils, but ― spoiler alert ― he takes his young son Will to New York Giants games and watches the sport he crucifies:
"But should I be O.K. with his watching the game? Don’t his (Will's) eyeballs help support an enterprise that we know can damage [see image of NFL player carted off field above] its participants? This is on top of the laundry list of other reasons to tune out, like the stain of disturbing NFL domestic-violence incidents. Or the apparent blacklisting of a player, Colin Kaepernick, for a peaceful act of protest. Or a sudden dearth of African-American head coaches: three now, as opposed to seven in 2018. Around 60% of the NFL’s players are black. There are no African-American majority owners."
Parents who subject their kids to football do so in age without innocence, he says. A 2017 study in the Journal of the American Medical Association revealed 110 of 111 brains of former NFL players showed signs of chronic traumatic encephalopathy (CTE). Several high-profile former players with the disease committed suicide. Some current players have retired young, including Carolina linebacker Luke Kuechly, just 28.
Some 100 million fans will watch Kansas City and San Francisco battle it out in the next Super Bowl, "in what may be America’s foremost annual display of mass hypocrisy," Gregory claims. "... As a sportswriter who’s relished the opportunity to park myself in multiple Super Bowl press boxes, I’m even more compromised. Not only have I introduced my son to a problematic game, writing about it is part of my job."
Jim Taylor, a California psychologist specializing in sports and parenting, shares Gregory's contempt for football. "By watching football, 'you’re gaining enjoyment from other people’s suffering,' he says. 'There’s no doubt about that.' We house conflicting thoughts in our brain: Football is dangerous; we love football. To ease this inherent conflict, we can either quit football cold–or at least cut back on consumption–or talk ourselves into minimizing its risks. ..."
Taylor says we are hedonistic beings who choose the path that gives us "the utmost pleasure. Not only am I a co-conspirator, now I’m making my kids a co-conspirator. ... "
Michael Bennett McNulty, a professor of philosophy at the University of Minnesota and a former fan who's tuned out football, says viewers of the game are complicit in its physical toll on players. “Without all the individuals supporting the sport, the harms wouldn’t happen. Saying one is complicit is right and justified.”
Gregory and his son agree there’s a lot to dislike about football, but "there’s still so much I love. So even as I feel some guilt about what I’m watching, I continue to tune in week after week, often with my impressionable teenage boy by my side. Abandoning the game would not just alter his fall Sunday routine but cause parental resentment my heart couldn’t bear." Football may bring them joy, but it's not unadulterated, he writes.
No wonder the conflicted Gregory says he feels like a hypocrite.
What’s a “Time magazine?” Haven’t seen one in years and years. Not even on the biggest magazine racks or in the doctor’s waiting room.
Isn’t that the magazine where Obama was on nearly every single weekly cover for 8 stinking years?
Typical projection from a worthless rag. What parent would let their children get into the cesspool media industry? Most are completely retarded,and brainwashed.
A ‘professional’ writer working for Time uses the word
‘crappy’ as an adjective. Time’s quality is slip sliding away.
If you watch the Super Bowl this weekend with your kids you go into it knowing that you will be exposing them to ads that promote crossdressing as a positive lifestyle choice and not merely the punchline in a beer ad. You will be exposing them to deliberately incendiary and misleading race hate from the BLM crowd. You will be subjecting them to global warming scare propaganda.
But Fox refused to air an ad where abortion survivors confront the audience. Fox wishes they’d just died like mama wanted.
All the males in our family watched as well as played football. I happen to think it helps make better men...just my opinion.
>>There are no African-American majority owners.”
The NFL refused to allow Rush Limbaugh to buy into a franchise. It wasn’t that he couldn’t find a seller or didn’t have the money. The NFL REFUSED.
I would prefer to watch Peewee, High School or College Football than the national flunky league.
I wait every year for the Stupid Bowl not to watch it but to start My Countdown to the NASCAR Daytona Speedweeks.
100%
I’ve ignored the stupor bowl since the 80s.
Wait. So does this mean Time thinks Kopernick is ‘crappy’ for playing football? Is he no longer a hero of the left?
Time Magazine is till being published? Who knew!
This isn’t going to go over well with the entitled millionaires who play for the NFL.
The Superbowl has been bad for kids at least since Michael Jackson’s “We Are the World” halftime show (re. his repeated obscene gesture, globalism, etc.).
Watching the NFL games is like watching grass grow, a complete waste of time
I wonder what time magazine thinks of this:
BREAKING: Cross-dressing LGBT activist to appear on ‘Sesame Street’
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