Posted on 01/31/2016 9:12:38 AM PST by MinorityRepublican
We just completed another regular season of NFL football. Now letâs 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. âImmoralâ is a strong word, impossible to type from anywhere other than the saddle of a very tall horse, which isnât 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 donât 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 youâre 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 playersâ skulls, when the brain sloshes around and smashes against its bone casing.
Itâs the speed and power with which players ram their helmeted heads into other players thatâs the problem. The game as it is played today kills the people who play it, period.
(Excerpt) Read more at theguardian.com ...
Whether football continues or not will be up to the parents. More and more parents are putting their kids in other sports and you’re starting to see growth in soccer and lacrosse.
Nice hit
And not end up getting shot or in prison.
Guardian, I diagnose you to be gridironophobic. Since you have a phobia, I can ignore, laugh at or morally condemn your opinion and you have to shut up. Those are the rules.
oh goody! We can now become fans of the world’s most popular sport... soccer! Where it’s the fans, not the athletes, who get beat up, trampled, or killed. Ninety boring minutes for a 1-0 score!
Does everything need a /sarc tag?
slavery and gladiators? Idk, kids still play, it's still fun. If people quit paying ( assuming it is not made illegal by government mandate) then maybe it should go away as a professional sport.
I don’t believe anyone is being forced to play football.
In any case, enjoy the rest of the thread, because:
Rugby should be abolished - no one watches it;
Cricket should be abolished - the one person watching fell asleep;
The Guardian should be abolished - just for sport.
American football players are savages.
Probably because in the next few years the Jaguars are going to relocate to London.
Speaking of equestrian, I initially thought that those “crash vests” that automatically inflate when you detach from your saddle where pretty gay too . . . but then I came around to thinking that they are a good idea at the professional level.
where = were
Soccer is too boring and therefore must be abolished
The European sport of football (soccer, here) has caused 100s of deaths among both players and spectators alike. Let’s ban this first and see how it goes over.
Those of the author's statist/collectivist mindset don't care. They want gov't to step in and abolish anything they either don't like (for whatever reason), hurts their delicate feelings, and/or deem dangerous to the collective. Europeans typically suffer from this insufferable statist do-gooderism at far higher rates than Americans, but there are plenty of them on this side of the pond as well.
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