I don't know if Aaron Hernandez was a shit before he started playing football or not. What IS clear though is that there is a major issue with American football that needs to be addressed. This feels like the 1960s when there weren't even medical warning notices on packs of cigarettes. It took more than 20 years before society made the adjustment and started banning smoking in public places. Maybe it will take as long or even longer with American football but I have to think the writing is on the wall. This sport is ultimately doomed without major changes.
I'm too lazy/drunk at the moment to provide a link but Mike Ditka (coach of the 1985 Chicago Bears - perhaps the best team of all time) and one tough son of a bitch said in an interview that if he had a teenage son, he would steer him clear of football. When a hardcore dude like Mike Ditka says that - wow.
Face it football fans, something will have to radically change to make this sport viable in the future. Maybe the game itself will change or maybe they will find a way to improve equipment like helmets that will mitigate the brain injuries but something will have to give. As it stands now, the NFL is little more ethical than gladiators in the Roman Colosseum. All these guys you're cheering for on Sundays for entertainment - they're being maimed. You can't see it but we know it's happening. On every play, people's brains are being destroyed. It's slow and it's cumulative. We KNOW now that it's happening.
Why do we continue to support the NFL?
I'm too lazy/drunk at the moment to provide a link but Mike Ditka (coach of the 1985 Chicago Bears - perhaps the best team of all time) and one tough son of a bitch said in an interview that if he had a teenage son, he would steer him clear of football. When a hardcore dude like Mike Ditka says that - wow.
Face it football fans, something will have to radically change to make this sport viable in the future. Maybe the game itself will change or maybe they will find a way to improve equipment like helmets that will mitigate the brain injuries but something will have to give. As it stands now, the NFL is little more ethical than gladiators in the Roman Colosseum. All these guys you're cheering for on Sundays for entertainment - they're being maimed. You can't see it but we know it's happening. On every play, people's brains are being destroyed. It's slow and it's cumulative. We KNOW now that it's happening.
Why do we continue to support the NFL?
Only two things are infinite, the universe and human stupidity, and I'm not sure about the former.
Albert Einstein
Albert Einstein
