This my friends, marks the beginning of the end of football

[SeattleUte]

Originally Posted by MikeWaters

Which brings up another good point: in a sport where brain damage is not rare, but indeed, might be common--can kids make informed consent to participate in such a sport? Are parents consenting in an informed manner?

How much money is spent putting high school football programs together? A FREAKING LOT.

Answer is simple. Move it out of the schools, like boxing.

While we're at it let's quit grading and ban dating because of all those teen suicides. A perfectly safe, perfectly banal, perfectly monolithic world. That's the ticket.

This reminds me of how our neighbors wanted to remove (low maintenance, attractive) bushes with any thorns from our common areas for fear that their kids might stick themselves.

[MikeWaters]

Originally Posted by SeattleUte

There is something sickeningly naive and insular about you saying this as all over the rest of the world people face much greater risks of death or dismemberment with not nearly the rewards available to big time football players. It took only about 20,000 Goths to occupy Rome peopled by millions of citizens because the Romans grew so wussified in their elaborate civilization. The day we do away with football because it's too dangerous we will have arrived at that condition.

Were you trying to say that gladiatorial exhibitions kept the Goths out?

Or the reverse?

[SeattleUte]

Originally Posted by MikeWaters

Were you trying to say that gladiatorial exhibitions kept the Goths out?

Or the reverse?

I think you would be fine with football if last season hadn't have so sorely disappointed you. You've not been the same since you went to that TCU-BYU game. It's like you suffered a knock on the head.

[MikeWaters]

Originally Posted by SeattleUte

I think you would be fine with football if last season hadn't have so sorely disappointed you. You've not been the same since you went to that TCU-BYU game. It's like you suffered a knock on the head.

answer the question, dipshit.

[SeattleUte]

Originally Posted by MikeWaters

answer the question, dipshit.

Football simulates gladiatorial conflict and phalanxes and such. It's not as mortal as all that. But it still feeds our natural blood lust which hasn't gone away. Have you changed your mind about guns?

[MikeWaters]

Originally Posted by SeattleUte

Football simulates gladiatorial conflict and phalanxes and such. It's not as mortal as all that. But it still feeds our natural blood lust which hasn't gone away. Have you changed your mind about guns?

answer the question, dipshit.

[BlueK]

Originally Posted by MikeWaters

According to my friend, boxing disappeared from colleges when it began to be perceived as no longer white-dominated. I.e. it was racism. Not a white man's sport any longer.

when I took a sports sociology class at BYU it was pointed out that 90% of athletic scholarships in college go to whites. I'm sure someone here will try to dispute that, but how many black athletes do you see in tennis, swimming, cross country, soccer, etc? And with title IX in effect, those are the sports where most of the scholarships go now. Plus, there are still a lot of whites in football and basketball anyway.

[BlueK]

Originally Posted by MikeWaters

Which brings up another good point: in a sport where brain damage is not rare, but indeed, might be common--can kids make informed consent to participate in such a sport? Are parents consenting in an informed manner?

How much money is spent putting high school football programs together? A FREAKING LOT.

Answer is simple. Move it out of the schools, like boxing.

by the way, cheerleading has more injuries per capita than football.

[MikeWaters]

Originally Posted by BlueK

when I took a sports sociology class at BYU it was pointed out that 90% of athletic scholarships in college go to whites. I'm sure someone here will try to dispute that, but how many black athletes do you see in tennis, swimming, cross country, soccer, etc? And with title IX in effect, those are the sports where most of the scholarships go now. Plus, there are still a lot of whites in football and basketball anyway.

Which goes along with why colleges would get rid of boxing.

[MikeWaters]

Originally Posted by BlueK

by the way, cheerleading has more injuries per capita than football.

Head injuries? Who the flip cares about a sprained wrist.