re: Bo Jackson: I no longer watch football, tired of all the dancing

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“Besides, for me right now—and I can’t take (anything) from these young cats playing—but I’d rather watch football. I don’t need to see a dance contest. I don’t need to see a celebration. I don’t need to see that, dude.”

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I'm 66 years old, I remember watching football with my brothers and my dad back in the late 60's through the early 80's and the celebration after scoring a TD would be teammates slapping the dude's shoulder pads after scoring. Generally the player who scored would hand the ball to one of the officials, and then the ball spiking started ......the rest is history.

Bo is right. I mean how many times these idiot players go out of their way to point both arms signaling a first down after making a play. It’s so repetitive and uncreative. It’s like a kid trying to get your attention.

Then you get the defense posing celebration in the endzone after a turnover. Then replay shows that the ball carrier was down. They're just so quick to do a “look at me” moment. It’s not men that I’m watching, it’s children.

“Bo is right. I mean how many times these idiot players go out of their way to point both arms signaling a first down after making a play. They’re just copying each other. It’s like a kid trying to get your attention.”


And when that happens, who is hurt and how does it affect the game?

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I just don’t know how we got to the point where we stopped thinking it was super gay for a grown man to pre plan a little dance

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This is what gets me.
Some of these guys are gathering their teammates and practicing.

NFL is a terrible pro product, just really bad football.

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Let’s all just ignore these dances.

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Make Football Violent Again

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The way we played it out at Doc Elliott Stadium in 1975 wearing our Ridell suspension helmets. !977 was the 1st year I remember refs calling 15 yard penalties for leading with your head. It was also the 1st year I got a helmet with padding in the top. .When you're 5'9" and 165 lbs. playing guard and LB in LHSAA 3A district, you use whatever you've got. When you have a 38" chest and a 28" waist you dive thru the air, and pound them with that 7&3/8's head.

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Ridell suspension helmets

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This is why the whole CTE/football thing is way overblown (if not outright fabricated). If football was so dangerous for our brains, then people my age should be ambling around our country's streets like armies of spot dribbling zombies. We all grew up playing football with suspension helmets without a lick of padding. Haven't seen those armies yet.

Easy there, turbo

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And when that happens, who is hurt and how does it affect the game?

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I doesn’t “hurt” anyone, doesn’t mean people can’t find it annoying though