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 ...
Not more than once!
True, but the 'my team' aspect has so pervaded the political process that the pep-rally mentality is prevailing in the political arena as well. It got Obama elected and will likely factor in this election as well.
I have played a bit of cricket and that ball is so hard that after 10-20 years of catching that thing I would’t be suprised if players can’t bend their fingers. It is the same thing, if not harder on the hands as an American baseball outfielder catching fly balls without gloves.
Where they hell did you read Bryson was a Brooklyn boy? Do you know anything about American accents? For God’s sake, he’s written at least two books about his Midwestern upbringing. Get with the program!
It would be more popular here if the networks figured out a way to sell ad time in a game with no time-outs. They are there to ‘sell soap’, after all. Natural game breaks in American football and baseball make them ideal for selling ad time.
Soccer sucks
football soaks up surplus American warriors
football is ritual war
Proudly exposed that is!
I googled, as I had never heard of him, and it came up New Jersey/Brooklyn.
The point is he isn’t a snotty Limey, but an American. Sate is rather by the point.
And you couldn’t even get the correct man, so back off, Ms Perfect.
LOL, just ignore the one I sent. Please lol.
I thought Norman Lear’s “All in the Family” TV show was a spinoff of the British series “Till Death Us Do Part.”
Come to think of it, the Maude character was originally seen on “All in the Family.” I think “Maude” the TV series was a spin-off of “All in the Family,” which made it’s debut here in the U.S. back in 1971.
The closing credits at the end of “All in the Family” mentioned that it was based on the British series “Till Death Us Do Part.”
The point is the writer is an American, I seem to be the only one that actually checked he wasn’t British.
Correct, it was.
I think you would enjoy rugby. Brutal, but great stuff.
Loath it and cricket
Megatron is retiring.
Whitehouse.http://espn.go.com/nfl/story/_/id/14686284/calvin-johnson-told-detroit-lions-plans-retire
Really? Wow.
So, they won?
Wait, no....they quit...
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