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re: Another example of why I don’t understand how football keeps getting elevated in society
Posted on 1/3/23 at 1:02 am to Tshiz
Posted on 1/3/23 at 1:02 am to Tshiz
According to your post history you cared enough about LSU and NFL games to comment about them…but since this guy got hit in the chest, you suddenly decide football needs to “simmer away”…why don’t you lead by example and stop watching
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Posted on 1/3/23 at 1:13 am to Tshiz
quote:true. But if anything, football helps young men more WAY more than it hurts.
we have a growing societal problem with mental illness
What do you think a large portion of current NFL players would be doing if not for the game of football.
Posted on 1/3/23 at 1:15 am to Tshiz
Hank Gathers and Reggie Lewis didn't die because their sport was violent.
True in the very beginning, football was banned because of too many deaths.
And still to this day high schoolers die every year while playing football. 12 fatalities annually with indirect systemic causes being twice as common as direct blunt trauma. The most common causes are cardiac failure, brain injury, and heat illness.
High School requires rudimentary physical examinations to compete.
True in the very beginning, football was banned because of too many deaths.
And still to this day high schoolers die every year while playing football. 12 fatalities annually with indirect systemic causes being twice as common as direct blunt trauma. The most common causes are cardiac failure, brain injury, and heat illness.
High School requires rudimentary physical examinations to compete.
This post was edited on 1/3/23 at 1:17 am
Posted on 1/3/23 at 1:17 am to diat150
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Feel like i hear of more soccer players dying on the field than football players.
Soccer players flop around and play dead
Posted on 1/3/23 at 5:00 am to Boodis Man
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soccer will take over soon.
Soccer isn't some "safe" sport. I know people who have lifelong injuries as a result of high school soccer. Also from gymnastics. Also from basketball. Also from softball.
Sports come with injuries. 3 of my family members needed surgeries for high school sports injuries that were not football.
Posted on 1/3/23 at 7:54 am to oauron
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By what metric? It's passed it by in every measurable way I can find.
Total revenue
NFL= 14 billion
MLB= 10 billion
NBA= 8 billion
NHL= 4 billion
MLS= 1 billion
Major league soccer has 25% of the revenue of the NHL. MLS does have a firm hold of number 5 for professional sports.
This post was edited on 1/3/23 at 8:03 am
Posted on 1/3/23 at 8:15 am to Tshiz
our nation supports MMA.
football is relatively tame in comparison.
if mothers knew how many 11 yr olds died from being hit by a pitch hardball would be outlawed.
I refused to allow my daughter to play high school soccer although she was a solid player in grammar school and wanted to go on with it. using head to hit the ball! no thanks. I saw the brain damage stories in sports illustrated.
football is relatively tame in comparison.
if mothers knew how many 11 yr olds died from being hit by a pitch hardball would be outlawed.
I refused to allow my daughter to play high school soccer although she was a solid player in grammar school and wanted to go on with it. using head to hit the ball! no thanks. I saw the brain damage stories in sports illustrated.
Posted on 1/3/23 at 8:20 am to CelticDog
quote:What did your husband think of that decision?
our nation supports MMA. football is relatively tame in comparison. if mothers knew how many 11 yr olds died from being hit by a pitch hardball would be outlawed. I refused to allow my daughter to play high school soccer although she was a solid player in grammar school and wanted to go on with it. using head to hit the ball! no thanks. I saw the brain damage stories in sports illustrated.
Posted on 1/3/23 at 8:21 am to CelticDog
Won’t let your daughter play high school soccer? Wow.
Can’t imagine standing in my son’s way like that. If my 16 yr old told me he wanted to climb El Cap this summer I’d tell him to make sure he’s prepared…
Can’t imagine standing in my son’s way like that. If my 16 yr old told me he wanted to climb El Cap this summer I’d tell him to make sure he’s prepared…
Posted on 1/3/23 at 10:27 am to Tshiz
Guess we need to stop kids from being cops, firemen, Nurses (saw one killed by a patient), garbage collectors (in top 10 most dangerous professions), or underwater welders (worst)... You can die in Baton Rouge going through a bank drive through... or walking to your car downtown...
Grow up snowflake....
Grow up snowflake....
Posted on 1/3/23 at 10:33 am to Tshiz
What about becoming cops? Would you allow them to put their lives at greater risk every day if they get paid less?
Posted on 1/3/23 at 10:35 am to Tigahs24Seven
Posted this in the OT:
Deaths per year in US:
Loggers: 43 or 82.2 per 100,000 workers
Commercial Fisherman: 23 or 75 per 100,000 workers
Roofers: 115 or 59 per 100,000 workers
Pilots: 68 or 48.1 per 100,000
Steel workers: 14 or 36.1 per 100,000
Drivers/Truck Drivers: 1,032 or 28.8 per 100,000
Electrical Workers: 30 or 22 per 100,000
Deaths per year in US:
Loggers: 43 or 82.2 per 100,000 workers
Commercial Fisherman: 23 or 75 per 100,000 workers
Roofers: 115 or 59 per 100,000 workers
Pilots: 68 or 48.1 per 100,000
Steel workers: 14 or 36.1 per 100,000
Drivers/Truck Drivers: 1,032 or 28.8 per 100,000
Electrical Workers: 30 or 22 per 100,000
Posted on 1/3/23 at 11:06 am to Tigerfan1274
Wow. With the exception of pilots, this list seems like the kind of jobs football players could actually get if the OP gets her wish.
Posted on 1/3/23 at 11:10 am to Tshiz
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Tshiz
I am curious as to why you're on this site, which is at its core a sports website where the number one sport discussed is football. Sure, it has other boards, but all of those branch off of the sports discussion.
Posted on 1/3/23 at 11:13 am to Willie Stroker
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her
Ah. OP makes a lot more sense now.
Posted on 1/3/23 at 11:14 am to Dizz
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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.
I'm a lawyer. The legal profession is at or near the top when it comes to rates alcohol abuse, drug addiction, mental illness, and suicide within the profession. Should we stop people from going to law school and becoming lawyers? (All lawyer jokes aside.)
This post was edited on 1/3/23 at 11:15 am
Posted on 1/3/23 at 11:15 am to Tshiz
If you don’t like it, don’t watch it and don’t support it. What gives you the right to tell everyone else what they should do?
Also, as pointed out many times, how many tens of thousands of hits happen with no issue whatsoever?
Karen’s like yourself should mind their own business and not lecture everyone else, nobody is forcing anyone to play football.
Also, as pointed out many times, how many tens of thousands of hits happen with no issue whatsoever?
Karen’s like yourself should mind their own business and not lecture everyone else, nobody is forcing anyone to play football.
Posted on 1/3/23 at 11:18 am to Tshiz
Did they quit racing when Dale died? And Football is a much more popular sport.
Posted on 1/3/23 at 11:22 am to red sox fan 13
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To be honest people shouldn’t be playing until middle school. 6 and 7 year olds playing tackle football makes me cringe.
Actually that’s the age that start getting big enough to hurt each other.
Unconventional take: Football prepares kids for life better than any other team sport. Work ethic, team work, comradery, discipline are crucial for a football team to be successful.
This post was edited on 1/3/23 at 11:31 am
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