Not just the NFL but all levels.
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 ...
LOL
We should change it to flag football and every game should be pink ribbon night and the uniforms should be pink...
American football isn’t as dangerous as islam.
So football is “too dangerous,” but inviting countless jihadis into one’s country isn’t?
only on windy days! LOL
You agree.
Jeez Louise.
Because of a tu quoque logical fallacy? Hardly.
You’re kidding, right?
“This movement is not good for your brains.”
Neither is liberalism.
The heartland of America needs to know that liberals want to abolish football.
That message would make a great super bowl ad. Apparently destroying our nation in every other way has not been enough to awaken the sleeping giant of the American voters. Maybe this could serve as a wakeup call to low-information voters.
Hilarious. The NFL faces an existential crisis, and you want to make a political football [pun intended] out of it.
“You do not use your head to tackle”
My father, who played football in the late 30’s, said that to me when I played in the late 60’s early 70’s. In his time it was leather helmets and no face mask.
Go back to leather helmets, and spearing will go away.
There, I ran this through the leftist/globalist translator.
Not just the NFL but all levels.
Yeah, you got me.
Not a bad idea. Isn’t there a lingerie football league that almost does that?
Typical Gator behavior under Muschump, Bridgewater got the last laugh in that game, though.
They would like us to play fuutbaal like the rest of the lesser countries do
Football players are not forced to play football. They are people that choice to live there lives as they see fit, unlike the duck in the authors holiday meal. Socialists always have a problem understanding individual choice.
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