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 ...
A sports doctor for the U.S.C. Gamecocks lives in our building. I asked him if politics was involved in the current concussion controversy (I believe it is, as a part of the ongoing wussification of America).
The doc’s reply was guarded. He seemed to blame the players for regarding their helmets/facemasks as weapons rather than safety equipment, and therefore headbutt far more aggressively than if they were wearing leather helmets & no face masks.
He also noted that 300 pound linebackers are now the exception rather than the rule (Refrigerator Perry?).
Is the concussion kerfuffle the revenge of the soccer loving nerds?
Heh, heh! “Rush! Stick with the issues!!”
But if anyone can expose the politics of concussions, Rush will.
I wonder if dainty Dave has ever watched a game?
Oh yeah, four hours of non-stop soccer or five days of cricket are better, followed by thirteen hours of a no-hitter baseball game.
Yep...he gets full credit
Only if you believe the concussions are being faked somehow. Jeepers.
If they become too brain damaged, at least they can still become writes for The Guardian .
You DO realise Dave Bry is AMERICAN, don’t you?.
Why, its a real man’s sport. Maybe if more ‘Yanks’ watched it, they’d see what a dull pussyfest the NFL is.
Lesser countries. And you wonder why you have a reputation for ignorance and arrogance.
Dave Bry is one of you.
Then again, the rest of your post shows you don’t take much in.
If you think nobody watches rugby, you are truly clueless.
If you think nobody watches cricket, you REALLY are clueless.
No, that’s the 3-4 hr baseball and football. At least a bad soccer game is over in 90m, bad rugby in 80.
Except he aint no furrner.
Bry is one of you. Brooklyn boy.
We need rugby if only to show the NFL how real hardmen play.
True, both sports are English.
Do people here really believe that?. LOL
HS rugby seems to be growing pretty quickly in the midwest USA. It’s not a funded sport so the kids have to bear all the costs. Seems like they get a fair number of football players, it’s played in the spring.
Unfortunately my daughter’s then boyfriend lost an appointment to West Point due to a severe concussion he suffered.
Yep. Gridiron is too wimpy for us.
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