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re: Another example of why I don’t understand how football keeps getting elevated in society

Posted on 1/2/23 at 9:43 pm to
Posted by financetiger38
Member since Nov 2022
3182 posts
Posted on 1/2/23 at 9:43 pm to
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This was obviously a very freak thing to have happened. Only one NFL player has ever died on the field.

Exactly. It wasn’t even a hard hit compared to what we see in every single game. Could’ve happened in literally any contact sport
Posted by Klingler7
Houston
Member since Nov 2009
12046 posts
Posted on 1/2/23 at 9:43 pm to
I wonder what Howard Cosell would be saying tonight.
Posted by Shaq4prez
The Deaf Dome
Member since Oct 2021
3038 posts
Posted on 1/2/23 at 9:44 pm to
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How many thousands or millions of kids, teenagers, and college students played football this year? How many died? Everything carries risk, football is no different. But the game is fun to watch and play and it’s one of the last bastions of masculinity in this country


This is spot on


OP is off base
Posted by MrSpock
Member since Sep 2015
4368 posts
Posted on 1/2/23 at 9:44 pm to
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They do. They also get more concussions


Yep. Try heading a 70 mph ball and tell me how you feel afterward.
Posted by BamaGradinTn
Murfreesboro
Member since Dec 2008
26994 posts
Posted on 1/2/23 at 9:44 pm to
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Feel like i hear of more soccer players dying on the field than football players.

They do. They also get more concussions


No, they don't. But they're number 2.

LINK
Posted by Poichess
Member since Jun 2019
796 posts
Posted on 1/2/23 at 9:44 pm to
Less and less kids play football
Posted by Dizz
Member since May 2008
14801 posts
Posted on 1/2/23 at 9:45 pm to
Yeah football is the profession that is causing all the mental illness. Let’s ignore the countless other jobs that really make people prone to mental illness.
Posted by Kitonja
Member since Dec 2022
174 posts
Posted on 1/2/23 at 9:46 pm to
Bruh anything could have caused him to collapse there. Maybe he had a unkown condition, could have been a spontaneous stroke, maybe it was the covid vaccine. The tackle looked routine. Not like he got destroyed by a defender that caused that.
Posted by snakanator
Member since Sep 2010
634 posts
Posted on 1/2/23 at 9:46 pm to
Post is Tshiz
Posted by deltaland
Member since Mar 2011
90972 posts
Posted on 1/2/23 at 9:46 pm to
What about the soccer players who dropped dead of cardiac arrest?


Tragedies happen everywhere. In sports. In life. In workplace. We can’t put everyone in a safety bubble out of fear something might happen.
Posted by pelicanpride
Houston
Member since Oct 2007
1304 posts
Posted on 1/2/23 at 9:50 pm to
Whatever the cause, it appears to be some freak incident. I’ve been reading it’s likely commotio cordis, which is more likely to occur in baseball than football. It definitely didn’t appear to be a head injury.
Posted by Big EZ Tiger
Member since Jul 2010
24292 posts
Posted on 1/2/23 at 9:51 pm to
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I just don’t get it and I can’t support kids playing football ever. The sport needs to simmer away and people should focus on pushing education onto kids, not a violent sport.

Not that I don't believe in pushing education, but there were WAY more kids that died at school from mass shootings last year than from playing football. As you said, the truth is the truth. All aspects of life involve some level of risk no matter how small the risk.
Posted by Tshiz
Idaho
Member since Jul 2013
7615 posts
Posted on 1/2/23 at 9:51 pm to
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Everything carries risk, football is no different.


This argument is ridiculous. Football dramatically increases the risk of injury, specifically head injuries due to grown as a men on HGH and prescription meds launching themselves into each other for years.

It’s not a risk, it’s a self induced trauma that’s only a matter of time before it affects the individuals
Posted by lsusteve1
Member since Dec 2004
42113 posts
Posted on 1/2/23 at 9:51 pm to
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Another example of why I don’t understand how football keeps getting elevated in society


Never fails when a tragedy happens. "Shut it all down"


Wish we cared as much about what a segment of Americans are doing to this Country
Posted by Geaux Guy
Member since Dec 2018
5371 posts
Posted on 1/2/23 at 9:52 pm to
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We should stop driving cars and stuff too




And sex. Childbirth is super risky.
Posted by deltaland
Member since Mar 2011
90972 posts
Posted on 1/2/23 at 9:53 pm to
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Life is full of risks. Weigh them and live your life how you please.


People who are careful and scared and never take risks out of fear may die at 90 without ever actually living.
Posted by deltaland
Member since Mar 2011
90972 posts
Posted on 1/2/23 at 9:53 pm to
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Less and less kids play football


Thanks to helicopter Karen parents like OP
Posted by Bjorn Cyborg
Member since Sep 2016
26998 posts
Posted on 1/2/23 at 9:54 pm to
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soccer will take over soon.


Yep, right along with the metric system.
Posted by HangmanPage1
Wild West
Member since Aug 2021
1419 posts
Posted on 1/2/23 at 9:54 pm to
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Tshiz
Are you on your period?
Posted by PowerTool
The dark side of the road
Member since Dec 2009
21237 posts
Posted on 1/2/23 at 9:54 pm to
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soccer will take over soon.



Rugby, bro.
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