This movement is not good for your brains.
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.
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The UK is too pussyfried and should be abolished.
So you’re against a slight modification of the rules to go from contact to flag football?
Rush predicted this crap several years ago.
foie gras causes cancer.
A lot of French crossbreeding evident here. Damn Normans.
Right, but make sure to keep the killing of innocent babies legal
The socialism supported by the Guardian has harmed, in fact killed far, far more people than football ever could.
Agree, it should be replaced with touch football played by teams of topless females.
Another thread designed to get the he-men beating their chests. Meanwhile, they are watching the NFL die before their very eyes.
Never mind, now I'm convinced. </sarc>
This movement is not good for your brains.
They should abolish rugby too the
It is and will become part of the Greater Caliphate. The author of this (fill in the blank) will become a sex toy of the new rulers.
Which also happens when you hit the soccer ball with your head.
So in its current state, soccer is immoral and we as a society should end its existence.
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Oops!
Did you fall out of your saddle?
BTW football is looking at the problem with an eye to protecting it's players, soccer has yet to admit that there is even a problem.
My thoughts exactly.
Doesn’t the Guardian have something in the UK it can report on? Apparently not, and therefore it pokes its’ nose into American society.
Not that I am surprised. It’s the Guardian after all.
In rugby, you do not use your head to tackle.
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