Posted on 02/03/2013 6:56:31 AM PST by Kaslin
Look the answer is obvious. Replace the men with women, the force of the collisions will be dramatically reduced and women will be on a better career path having engaged in combat.
Good points. The irony is that the “safer” helmets encourage more helmet-to-helmet contact while they cannot keep the brain from rattling around in its pan.
Millions of American males have played at least some level of
organized tackle football. A relative few live their lives with some
pain, usually involving the ankle, knee, or shoulder. Even fewer
players end up with permanent brain damage.
This whole debate reminds me of the airplane crash issue. When
we have a series of airliner crashes some people get their panties
in a twist. They ignore the fact that many thousands of planes
have taken off and landed without incident.
There is an ongoing battle to take away ALL forms of risk
in this country and I, for one, think it is pretty dumb.
People didn’t stop liking boxing (as much it’s not exactly “dead” just no longer a major sport in the US. Mexico and the UK seem to like it a little better) cause of it’s violent nature.
America LOVES violence. Football is huge $$$$$$$ bizness it’s not going anywhere anytime soon despite all the “oh woe is me this is bad but I love football” commentary from the media. Sports media people are like, having fights within their own minds over this. It’s hilarious.
I for one didn’t need recent medical evidence and sensationization to tell me that getting multiple blows to the head was BAD FOR YOU. In boxing that’s called being punch drunk and it’s been common knowledge for decades. It’s somewhat dangerous to play football, people do it by choice, that should be the end of it.
Make better helmets, safer tackling is possible maybe, they aren’t letting concussed people get back on the field until a doctor clears them, that’s good.
Wussy losers will try to water down the heart of the game though by doing things like eliminating the kickoff. If they do that...
Sarcastaball. We may as well drink each others.......
It’s really pure physics.
The NFL players are by far the top level in speed and size, so they’re going to have the highest g-force collisions.
Unfortunately while their muscles are the biggest, their brain tissue is just as impact sensitive as anybody else.
MMA is less violent actually due to the ability of the fighter to "tap out" without shame. All a fighter does is grapple and turn his back in order for a rear choke.
Or putting the strong arm on hapless taxpayers to build their team a new state of the art stadium. Good example, Mike Brown of the Cincinnati Bengals ... the old stadium barely 25 years old was demolished.
I quit watching football when they created the “Red Zone.” Their percentages, in the “red zone,” how many points, in the “red zone,” how many plays, in the “red zone,” against this team or that team, during the season, last season, the last two seasons, NUTS! I turned them off. No more.
The reason Pro football is going away is because the player farms under the NFL are going away. First middle school and High School football will disappear since school districts can’t absorb the coming lawsuits. Without high schools where will college recruit? Due to the larger amounts of money involved colleges will last a few years more than high school programs and the pros will be the last to go simply because of the vast resources of the NFL. Given enough time lawyers will eventually ruin EVERYTHING!
You are correct. Your user name obviously indicates that you
are a follower of auto racing which is another high risk enter
prise. The thing we realize is the more and the longer people
engage in high risk activities the better the chance of harmful
incidents occurring. There is an element of our society that
seems to thrive on attempting to eliminate all posibility of
risk. To me that is absurd.
And yet we have over half a million America dead because of AIDS, primarily due to consensual but immoral practice, which “helmets” alone will not prevent.
To my mind, the full embrace of the homosexual agenda by the NFL has speeded its demise.
oh I hadn’t realized the NFL did that
soccor is a really stupid game, most of these games are for numbskulls
They can win it. First thing to do is start writing checks, settle all those cases out of court, they’ve got the cash. Next thing to do is stop screwing around with veteran players and their healthcare, no more trying to write off problems as non-football, again just start writing checks (the NFL has ridiculously deep pockets), cover everything, cover the flu. Once they do that the problem, at least the PR portion, will be gone.
Boxing didn’t die because of brain injuries, boxing died because the sport is insanely corrupt, there’s too many “world governing bodies” handing out belts, and not enough bouts. If there were no more than 2 “champions” at every weight class, and those champs had to fight twice a year, and the results seemed genuine boxing would be back. That’s how the MMA grew.
I quit watching when the Colts left Baltimore. I don’t think I’ve missed much since then...
Joint injuries don’t lead to the imagery of hall of famers babbling nonsense and living under bridges though. That’s powerful depressing stuff.
yeah it is for sure my kid had to box a kid who was supposedly 14 but had a 5 o clock shadow.
so now it’s all about who can garner the most sympathy through jealousy and resentment?
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