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 ...
Megatron is smart. He already made his millions. Why stay longer for a losing team? 20 years from now he wants to be able to remember his children’s birthdays.
Yep, as a Lions fan, I’ll be sad to see him go, but other part of me says, good for him. Just like when Barry Sanders retired. Bet every day he wakes up now he’s glad he got out when he did.
Crash vests are great for eventers who jump big, solid fences. A really tough sport. Other equestrian sports don’t need that much protection.
I think if I were a football player, my plan would be to play for no more than two contracts, then get out before reaching 30. But so many players blow their money that they have no choice but to keep playing.
Yeah I’m glad that Barry Sanders get to enjoy a higher quality if life. Can’t say the same for late Junior Seau.
It’s sad to see what happens to those former athletes in dire straits” after watching 30 for 30 — “Broke” on ESPN. They’re typically come from lower class and the Universities they played for failed to give them an education which includes financial literacy. That’s the consequence of taking “Mickey Mouse” classes.
The Guardian - the paper of record for Britain’s poofters.
Drunkenness aside, who in their right mind plays soccer on concrete?
There are several other leagues also but LFL has a TV contract (cable, I forget which channel).
Let’s all play loser soccer and be like the loser euros.
Nobody won the war of 1812. If anyone won it, it was Canada. Throwing a US invasion out for the second time in 37 yrs.
And anyone who thinks America won WW1/WW2 and saved Britain needs to read a history book.
So you have watched rugby.
No, you have your own loser sports.
(well, actually you don’t, baseball, basketball and gridiron aren’t American. Ice hockey is Canadian, lacrosse French)
The reason for the steadily increasing coverage of US affairs, and use of American writers (like the author of this article) in The Guardian? It’s simply that The Guardian now has a larger readership, especially online, in the US than the UK.
I read the Economist (affecting English accent) LOL
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