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To: Bender2
Well, hell, let's just abolish tackling altogether and turn the NFL into a flag football league.

Unfortunately, that will eliminate a lot of jobs for the big beefy types. But it will create a lot of jobs for the fast maneuverable types.

6 posted on 02/05/2016 1:21:30 PM PST by Vigilanteman (ObaMao: Fake America, Fake Messiah, Fake Black man. How many fakes can you fit into one Zer0?)
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To: Vigilanteman

College now has automatic ejections for “Targeting”, but some of those calls were really ridiculous.


20 posted on 02/05/2016 1:35:19 PM PST by dfwgator
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To: Vigilanteman
Well, hell, let's just abolish tackling altogether and turn the NFL into a flag football league.

Unfortunately, that will eliminate a lot of jobs for the big beefy types. But it will create a lot of jobs for the fast maneuverable types.

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A lot of people are not thinking this through because it's messing with their sport but football has changed a lot since the 1970s. People think it was more brutal in the olden days but the modern teams play on artificial astro turf, modern players are more huge and powerful than past players and wear hard body armor. Basically you have a human mini car smashing you into hard astro turf.

Think outside the box. Make the game be played on real grass (soccer does that), maybe less protection for fans. I know it sounds counter intuitive but thanks to me becoming an MMA trainee - (for exercise not for sport) I am told that it is safer for the fighter because boxing with a padded glove just adds to the trauma. A bare fist to the head limit's the impact on the head. Same principal with football - maybe the hard helmets make it easier for players to charge head first into others?

Like it or not - if football does not address this parents will stop signing up their kids for the sport even in the south.

25 posted on 02/05/2016 1:49:08 PM PST by Trumpinator ("Are you Batman?" the boy asked. "I am Batman," Trump said.)
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