One of the combatants.
Sports violence has become the selling point of most leagues now. It started in the pro’s years ago but has leaked down to national federation level to include high schools and grammar schools.
Very few contests historically started in their history with this level of violence, hockey and boxing being a couple. But with rule changes, and the transition to education at lower levels with the win at all cost attitude, sports has turned into something far uglier than it started. And it is now all for the worth, and not the competition. So sportsmanship is a myth.
Some sports have failed due to their lack of violence. Women’s pro basketball is one that has failed many times until they could get some goons in that could dunk and hit hard enough to emit the gasp from the crowd. And the most violent of our sports, football, tried to reel in some of it, but except for the most dangerous of fouls, head to head and crack back (cut) blocks, contact is not only ignored by the game but encouraged by the how much can I get away with thought process. And it’s encouraged all the way to grammar schools teams. The pit area, that space 3 yards on either side of the line of scrimmage, is a gang fight, not line play.
And if you can get on the playing surface of most sports, you can see how the games have been shaped to sell. They used to fill the Colosseum years ago. Nothing has changed except our acceptance and the overseeing of our kids body damage.
wy69
LSU & Ole Miss really don’t like each other! Goes back to the Billy Cannon punt return in 1959. Status quo.
Chick fight!!!!.....combatants should keep talking...agree to a pay per view MMA battle....earn some money for that smidgen of testosterone in their blood. I would guess the combatants would become friends after the profits are shared.
One of the combatants.