I don't watch football very often, but percentage-wise it doesn't seem to be any more dangerous than driving a car. I wonder what the numbers are, when you compute the total number of NFL players in the last ten years, say, and total up the number of injuries incurred. I'm guessing the number is small. So, let's see, what will the liberals demonize next?
There seems to be permanent brain damage in many of the pros who have been autopsied. Concussions are rampant and how much damage is caused is not known. Due to this, I believe that full contact football played by high schoolers will go away. College possibly too, if the money goes away. Pro football will remain, but more like boxing.
You're probably right. But my objection comes from denigrating the instinctive will to excel that the article seems to be espousing. All through the ages, from gladiators to bullfighters, to boxers to football, men have striven to win, to excel at their "games." I think the same instinct drives corporate moguls and Wall Street wunderkinds. Whether it's chess or Ultimate Fighting, the drive is there, and I don't think it's wrong. I think of Jim Thorpe and the like. Football can be dangerous, NASCAR can be dangerous, Ultimate Sports, skydiving, you name it. Maybe football is being singled out because of the recent spate of injuries.
Did you see that the Kickstarter campaign for that Death Star poster has reached almost $100K?? All they asked for originally was $4500 or so. No one should under-estimate the Star Wars fandom.
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I don't watch football very often, but percentage-wise it doesn't seem to be any more dangerous than driving a car. I wonder what the numbers are, when you compute the total number of NFL players in the last ten years, say, and total up the number of injuries incurred. I'm guessing the number is small. So, let's see, what will the liberals demonize next?
There seems to be permanent brain damage in many of the pros who have been autopsied.
Concussions are rampant and how much damage is caused is not known.
Due to this, I believe that full contact football played by high schoolers will go away. College possibly too, if the money goes away.
Pro football will remain, but more like boxing.
You're probably right. But my objection comes from denigrating the instinctive will to excel that the article seems to be espousing. All through the ages, from gladiators to bullfighters, to boxers to football, men have striven to win, to excel at their "games." I think the same instinct drives corporate moguls and Wall Street wunderkinds. Whether it's chess or Ultimate Fighting, the drive is there, and I don't think it's wrong. I think of Jim Thorpe and the like. Football can be dangerous, NASCAR can be dangerous, Ultimate Sports, skydiving, you name it. Maybe football is being singled out because of the recent spate of injuries.
Did you see that the Kickstarter campaign for that Death Star poster has reached almost $100K?? All they asked for originally was $4500 or so. No one should under-estimate the Star Wars fandom.
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