Then start your own league. Go for it.
ETA: Yeah, Doorman? How about trading the extra money for no longer be able to recognize your wife? Or your kids? Still willing to make the trade? 6 years. That’s how long you get on average. Trade that for being a drooling moron in 20 more years?
If televised football is literally all you enjoy in life, get some help.
You still have your laser discs, PSXer.
Not to mention fun stuff leading up to it like aggression, confusion, depression, and gait/coordination problems! And the damage starts as early as high school, so even a college-only athlete may fuck up his brain for no good reason, no NFL career, and maybe wreck his ability to achieve a decent life and retirement in his chosen career.
I didn’t think so. Quite the opposite actually. I thought this was about elderly men with sagging “equipment”, ill fitting short shorts, who were going commando, and letting it all hang out.
Ha! My ball carrier moved.
Unless it’s fourth and goal, with 3 seconds left on the clock, and you’re trailing by five.
Great post. And I think the worm/maggot OP is about twelve years old, judging by his posts.
Except that the new rules will still allow your fullback to lower his head and charge through the defensive line, as long as he’s inside the tackle box.
PSXer, you’re retarded. It’s as stupid as saying that safety rules for cars (seat belts, headrests, crumple zones, etc) take all the fun out of driving and that everyone who drives knows what they’re in for. It. Fucking. Saves. Lives.
Seventeen weeks of entertainment for you each year – and I’ll bet you don’t even watch every game – is nothing compared to people living with brain damage every day for decades. You are monumentally stupid if you can’t understand that.
The OP has a thing about football and preserving the violence of the game regardless of the impact on the health of players.
In other words, he’s an idiot. This is just further proof.
Folks arguing against this rule are idiots. It should be obvious to anyone that you should not be able to use your helmeted head as a bulldozer. The only real concern I have is how well it will be called, but I am sure it will be worked out. Note, it is not a penalty to just lower your head, it is a penalty if you use your helmet as a projectile.
There are already tons of rules about the way players can approach and contact each other. This is just one more minor change that nobody will even notice a year from now.
What is missing from modern football is the kaiser helmet. These days you aren’t even allowed a shiv on the field. Ah for the good ol’ days when men were men.
There’s no evidence (yet) that CTE is an expected outcome in all cases. There are hundreds of current and former football players that do not suffer from such conditions. But yes, I’m still willing to make the trade.
IIRC, he also admitted a while back that many of his earlier threads were at least partially trolling, but promised never ever to do it again.
It doesn’t have to be “an expected outcome in all cases” to be worth worrying about.
I’m not arguing that it’s not worth worrying about. I’m saying that the OP has a not-uncommon point of view, and it’s not so irrational that he deserves to be torn apart for it. I don’t necessarily happen to agree with it, but I do understand where he’s coming from though his presentation sucks.
It’s possible, I guess, to take a rational position against this rule. The OP isn’t doing that. He’s getting torn apart because he’s an asshole, not because he’s taken an unpopular position.
I keep hearing this argument and it’s bullshit. It’s only recently that we’ve learned the consequences of head injuries. As in, the last ten years. Prior to that, “you just got your bell rung, get back out there.” Hell, if you’ll recall, it took Sidney Crosby getting injured for the NHL to start taking this stuff seriously.
It’s also only in the last twenty years or so that athletes started making millions. Back when a lot of these guys were playing, they weren’t making that much money. Some of them were taking second jobs in the off-season. (Bradshaw, Webster, etc)
I’ve mentioned before that Ken Dryden wrote several articles on concussions in sports and the consequences. It’s fucking scary.
When you have Terry fucking Bradshaw saying he’d never let his son play football, I think you need to look into a way to make things a little less risky.
Besides, in the past, football and hockey were a LOT more dangerous and violent. But people still watch them. They complained that helmets would make people “pussies”. Jacques Plante was mocked for being the first goalie to wear a mask. Nowadays, they’d call you a fucking moron for not wearing one.
The fact that there might be one person who is rationally willing to take that trade is the very reason that you need a governing body to make rules in the first place. It’s the same as doping. So long as there is anyone who is willing to dope in order enhance performance, then doping becomes much like an obligation for everyone else. The very fact that the public is willing to dangle millions of dollars in front of the faces of thousands of high school students aggravatesthe rational decision making problem.