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1 posted on 05/03/2012 1:34:26 PM PDT by Kaslin
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To: Kaslin

They’ll ban the kick-offs and punts soon enough...


2 posted on 05/03/2012 1:38:10 PM PDT by BuddaBudd (F U B O)
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To: Kaslin

For those that think banning football is the solution: Just how many people do you think would’ve heard of Junior Seau without football, what do you think he would’ve done instead, and do you have proof he wouldn’t have killed himself if he had been a bricklayer?


3 posted on 05/03/2012 1:38:19 PM PDT by The Sons of Liberty (Sworn to Defend The Constitution Against ALL Enemies, Foreign and Domestic. So Help Me GOD!)
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To: Kaslin

And there are thousands of retired players who had concussions who are leading normal, happy lives. And there are thousands of people who never had concussions who commit suicide.


5 posted on 05/03/2012 1:42:14 PM PDT by ilovesarah2012
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To: Kaslin

Coming soon. The New NFL. National FLAG Football League. Complete with shorts and T-shirts with names and numbers on them.


6 posted on 05/03/2012 1:43:52 PM PDT by RetiredArmy (He has Risen!!! If you do not know Him, this is the perfect week to seek Him out!!!)
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To: Kaslin

Was watching espn this morning, and everyone has espoused one theory or another for Seau’s death. No one knows why he took his own life; please stop with the baseless conjecture. We may never know why he did it; it’s just a sad, tragic ending to a human life.


7 posted on 05/03/2012 1:44:41 PM PDT by Sic Parvis Magna
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To: Kaslin

That head-hunter coach should be banned for life instead of just suspended.


8 posted on 05/03/2012 1:45:55 PM PDT by ex-snook ("above all things, truth beareth away the victory")
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To: Kaslin

If there is ever a concerted effort to ban American football, soccer should immediately connected with it, since it requires players to hit the ball with their HEAD. There are obvious symptoms of trauma from these repeated blows to the head, such as the belief that soccer is superior to football and the overwhelming tendency to vote Democrat.


12 posted on 05/03/2012 1:50:21 PM PDT by kosciusko51 (Enough of "Who is John Galt?" Who is Patrick Henry?)
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To: Mears

bfl


14 posted on 05/03/2012 1:52:57 PM PDT by Mears (Alcohol. Tobacco. Firearms. What's not to like?)
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To: Kaslin
Football is a rough and dangerous sport. I should know - I signed up for it as a kid and lasted maybe a week or two before deciding it wasn't for me. And I'm no wimp, I would later spend four years in the U.S. Marine Corps. It was just that I had no desire to simulate getting run over by a truck 20-30 times a day.

Some people do like the contact however and thrive in the game. That's all well and good for them. If they make it to the professional level, they get lots of money and they earn every penny of it. Even if they don't make it to the pros, you can usually get a college scholarship out of it and they deserve that as well - especially considering the amount of $$$ those college football games bring to the schools.

That all said, there is a downside in that many players come out of the game with broken bodies and/or brain damage due to all the concussions. That is the risk you take to get a shot at the big bucks.

I'm not sure how you make the game safer for players without making it virtually unwatchable for everybody else. It would be like trying to make NASCAR safer by making the speed limit 45 mph and encasing the cars in bubble wrap. Who would want to watch that?

26 posted on 05/03/2012 2:21:15 PM PDT by SamAdams76 (I am 17 days away from outliving Phil Hartman)
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To: Kaslin

So how do they explain suicides of people who never played football or had no head injuries?


27 posted on 05/03/2012 2:30:17 PM PDT by cripplecreek (What does it profit a man if he gains the whole world but loses his soul?)
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"He was a big believer in the government doing as much it could to help the poor and this kind of thing."

That proves he was brain damaged

28 posted on 05/03/2012 2:31:02 PM PDT by Mr. K (If Romney wins the primary, I am writing-in PALIN)
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I have two theories: 1) He was murdered. 2)He was efeminate and hated that about himself. Both theories are plausible, knowing statisticaly 90% of the time a female suicide death occurs when a gun is fired through the heart. A man 90% of the time shoots himself in the head. Just an observation. The only other theory would be that he wanted to see himself conciously die, which is more creepy than any of us should like to entertain. He had a history of troubles with family. Fame can do some strange things to people, and his ending was horrific. I’d still be questioning that girlfriend intensely to see if there are any holes in her story-—sounds very fishy.


36 posted on 05/03/2012 3:12:07 PM PDT by Joshua Marcus
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To: Kaslin
Nobody forces these players to continue playing. I always advise kids to give the game all they have and take it as far as they can but to hang up the cleats following the second serious injury.

If they make it to the pro's, target making the retirement mark and then hang up the cleats.

38 posted on 05/03/2012 3:36:21 PM PDT by fso301
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