Here's a story, of a man named Brady....

[PabloTescobar]

Whit the fk is a ''jock sniffer? i'd really like to know........

[Brian37]

There are people who like American football, then there are people who look at the pads and helmets and call the players wimps. I never understood this. I played sandlot on my street, and even without the pads, I wanted the pads. I never played HS. But I have seen plenty of injuries in HS and college and pro. The protective equipment does not make them wimps. Even on D-Day the soldiers had helmets. 

I am old enough to remember Giant's  Lawrence Taylor breaking Washington's  Joe Theismann's leg.

NFL players get put through the grinder, even prior to entering the league, as young as Pop Warner. 

If rugby or soccer fans think they could handle playing in the NFL they are sadly mistaken. All sports have risk of injury, but to say American football is less of a risk is absurd.

This conversation plays out daily on reddit, or did 5 years ago.  There's even a hand egg thrown in.  People across the sea like their hands free and pads free games.  Don't know why that leads to poor critiques of our game, but it's a thing with them.

I was watching that Monday Night game too.  I didn't see the leg snap, but I remember LT hopping up and motioning toward the Washington sideline, get out here fast.

Oh no, if you get the right clip you can see his lower leg snap. Not pretty. 

But yea, Taylor jumped up, everyone saw that, and you can't blame him. Who wants to break somebody's leg in a game?

[arewethereyet]

A guy I dated my junior and senior year of high school had caught my eye during our freshman year but I didn't know it.

His high school started having a football team when we were freshmen. My high school had a team for years and was known for being really good. We were rivals already in all other sports.

First Junior Varsity game between my school and his and there was a big injury on the field. Really tall, thin guy from their team got creamed by much shorter, stocky guy from my school. Tall guy flew up in the air and did a back flip before landing really, really badly on one of his legs. There was a collective gasp from both stands. Ambulance drove onto the field to scoop him up and haul him away.

When we met he asked me if I knew Steve...yeah, I did. Boyfriend says, "Yeah, he broke my leg and screwed up my knee in a football game when we were freshman."

That was you??????

Not a pretty thing to watch, but then neither were either of the ACL tears my son suffered playing HS football.

[Brian37]

A guy I dated my junior and senior year of high school had caught my eye during our freshman year but I didn't know it.

His high school started having a football team when we were freshmen.  My high school had a team for years and was known for being really good.  We were rivals already in all other sports.

First Junior Varsity game between my school and his and there was a big injury on the field.  Really tall, thin guy from their team got creamed by much shorter, stocky guy from my school.  Tall guy flew up in the air and did a back flip before landing really, really badly on one of his legs.  There was a collective gasp from both stands.  Ambulance drove onto the field to scoop him up and haul him away.

When we met he asked me if I knew Steve...yeah, I did.  Boyfriend says, "Yeah, he broke my leg and screwed up my knee in a football game when we were freshman."

That was you??????  

Not a pretty thing to watch, but then neither were either of the ACL tears my son suffered playing HS football.

No it never is. I don't care what sport one is into, or what team one roots for. I have to give kudos to to most players and fans, when shit like this happens, nobody is happy.

I won't lie, I do like seeing a player of a rival get "knocked out", but not in the context of ending up in the hospital. 

Just like watching the Skins Cowboys. I always loved seeing Aikman get sacked. But no, I would not want see him get his leg broken. Sports ultimately is just that. I always hate losing to the Cowboys, but no matter the team, I don't like seeing any player end up in the hospital.