Posted on 01/31/2016 9:12:38 AM PST by MinorityRepublican
We just completed another regular season of NFL football. Now let’s see if we can make it the last such season ever played. In its current state, professional football is immoral and we as a society should end its existence.
I imagine some fans of American football felt their hackles rise upon reading that. “Immoral†is a strong word, impossible to type from anywhere other than the saddle of a very tall horse, which isn’t the most comfortable seat for me.
I ate foie gras with Christmas dinner last week and enjoyed it immensely. I know that its production involves torturing ducks, which I think is wrong. In eating it, I am putting my own pleasure over the wellbeing of another living creature.
So I don’t take the moral high ground lightly. But I value human life more than avian life, so I will continue to scold those of you who put the pleasure you derive from watching football (and in so doing, paying money to the NFL, propagating its immoral practices) above the wellbeing of the players you’re watching play.
The damage football players suffer need not be debated at this point. The new Will Smith movie, Concussion, is based on one of the many books detailing the mountain of scientific evidence proving that the sport shortens lives.
Efforts to make it safer with better equipment will not work, because the damage happens inside the players’ skulls, when the brain sloshes around and smashes against its bone casing.
It’s the speed and power with which players ram their helmeted heads into other players that’s the problem. The game as it is played today kills the people who play it, period.
(Excerpt) Read more at theguardian.com ...
I'll wait until I see similar concerns about its hazards before I worry about football.
I personally could care less about football, but I dislike a foreigner telling me what I should accept as entertainment.
You reap what you sow. The NFL showcases Satanic masses at its Super Bowl, shuts out firearms advertisers, and pushes 0-care alienating many conservatives. Truth is, NFL is critical for our oligarchic government because it provides a powerful diversion for the public. Instead of unsderstanding politics and policy, otherwise intelligent and potentially critical thinking individuals spend their time memorizing player stats for fantasy football games.
Meanwhile, the effete metrosexual types whine about the violence which elicits a predictable defense of the manly sport by fans that define their manliness by watching and defending the NFL.
Let’s face it. The NFL is in league with the NWO. This is all a contrived controversy.
Ban Chess too.
We’ll get right on that after we’re done copying your loser firearms laws...
The hilariously faggy Guardian strikes again. Why don’t they abolish rugby and get back to us.
The libs continue to function on the assumption that all risk can be eliminated and that grown adults aren’t capable assessing risk and making rational choices.
Actually, he was talking about this at least a decade ago.
He was saying the Left hated the image of football.
I remember & thought it would never happen. I shouldn’t have doubted him!!
The UK is full of mussie scum and whiney girly men(?). The UK needs to be trashed.
Cricket is a gentlemanly British game like baseball except the ball is much harder and the players, except for the equivalent of the catcher, wear no gloves.
Ban the NFL and black unemployment soars...
Well considering that grown adults voted for Obama twice, maybe they have a point.
oops! :)
In other words, the NFL is a devious Left-wing socio-political control mechanism.
In England, the only one they’re sure isn’t a queen, is the Queen.
And exactly how many young men are FORCED to play football at the high school, college, and professional levels?
“Well considering that grown adults voted for Obama twice, maybe they have a point.”
It’s hard to disagree with that, but it seems like we can separate the men from the boys by political affiliation.
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