Ok, I’ll concede that it shouldn’t be done, given how it’s against the rules. With regard to “hurting people”... It’s football. What is a very physical game by design. Here lately, the league and Players Association would almost put skirts on ALL of them.(it used to be just quarterbacks and kickers)
I like a good hard hit as much as the next guy. It’s what makes the game great. But Warner retired after his concussion. Farve was never the same after a great 2009.
Purposely trying to injure players risks their livelihood and affects more than just the injured player.
After all the concussion debate lately this is going to bring crushing sanctions to the Saints.
If he paid a the players to inflict game ending injuries on other players, they must have done a lousy job of it. I don’t remember any more injuries on the oppononents than any other team. As far as Brett Favre is concerned, I’ve never seen such a cry-baby in all my life. He actually laid out on the field in one game of his last season, so much so that the announcers thought he had been seriously injured. Turned out he cut his chin.
Look up the details of Chris Henry’s autopsy, and then remember that he never missed a single game in the pros or college due to head injury. There’s a reason the league and PA are freaking out about injuries, the data is saying these guys are literally killing themselves playing the game. With the data we have now a conscientious parent wouldn’t let their kid play the game, and if kids aren’t playing the game then you don’t get the next generation of adults to play the game. Yes there is a certain minimum level of violence in the game, but they have to mitigate the risk, they’ve got to keep it a game that mom’s will let their kids play, or it ends.
“With regard to ‘hurting people’... It’s football. What is a very physical game by design”
I wouldn’t have thought I’d need to explain this, but there’s a difference between a design allowing for the possibility of injury and a game being designed to injure people. Someone being carted off the field after your legal hit and you hitting someone legally so as to intentionally get them carted off the field is not the same thing. If you don’t understand that, there’s really no point trying to convince you.