Sports Violence

[ITCH]

WASHINGTON (AP) — President Barack Obama is a big football fan with two daughters, but if he had a son, he says he'd "have to think long and hard" before letting him play because of the physical toll the game takes.
"I think that those of us who love the sport are going to have to wrestle with the fact that it will probably change gradually to try to reduce some of the violence," Obama tells The New Republic.
"In some cases, that may make it a little bit less exciting, but it will be a whole lot better for the players, and those of us who are fans maybe won't have to examine our consciences quite as much."
In an interview in the magazine's Feb. 11 issue, Obama said he worries more about college players than he does about those in the NFL.
"The NFL players have a union, they're grown men, they can make some of these decisions on their own, and most of them are well-compensated for the violence they do to their bodies," Obama said. "You read some of these stories about college players who undergo some of these same problems with concussions and so forth and then have nothing to fall back on. That's something that I'd like to see the NCAA think about."
NFL spokesman Greg Aiello responded Sunday, "We have no higher priority than player health and safety at all levels of the game."

Man this idiot of a President we have never seems to amaze me. Now he is saying there is to much violence in football and all Sports. What a **** head. So catch the ball and don't run just stand there LMFAO...LMFAO...LMFAO

 

[HoJo]

NTFL, the National Touch Football League.

 

[kelcarry]

I do not look at his face nor listen to his words--he sickens me. Who the hell cares what he has to say about anything; when his mouth is moving at least you know he is lying.

 

[Riverkilt]

Pro Bowl yesterday looked like the National Touch Football League...

Aaron Kipnis wrote in "Knights Without Armor" that if boys were taught human anatomy in the third grade football would cease to exist.

Great article in Rolling Stone Magazine about head trauma in football...how it all adds up...

We may have our opinions about what football should be - but new medical facts emerging should make anyone reconsider playing the game.

Mistaking opinions for facts is usually a big mistake.

 

[Nightmare45]

Also believe he said if he had a son he would look like Travon.

 

[tricolordad]

Nope. His son would look like Al Roker. Angular forehead, huge teeth, sweaty liberal upper lip...

 

[lsmurphy]

 

[kerb]

Pro Bowl yesterday looked like the National Touch Football League...

Aaron Kipnis wrote in "Knights Without Armor" that if boys were taught human anatomy in the third grade football would cease to exist.

Great article in Rolling Stone Magazine about head trauma in football...how it all adds up...

We may have our opinions about what football should be - but new medical facts emerging should make anyone reconsider playing the game.

Mistaking opinions for facts is usually a big mistake.

I saw a story on the news about how snoring causes you to be more at risk for heart attack or stroke.
Seems some doctors did a study and found that people who snore have thicker carotid arteries than people who don't (which is where the increased risk comes from).

My problem with these academics doing the studies is that sometimes they draw seemingly ridiculous conclusions.
These guys were claiming that snoring somehow causes the thickened arteries.
Wouldn't it be more likely that the majority of people who snore are overweight and out of shape, and THAT is the cause for thicker arteries? Did they factor in whether these people smoked or not? I don't know.

I agree that mistaking opinion for fact can be bad - but blindly accepting facts out of context is just as bad.

 

[S&W645]

I think many who are against abortion might rethink their stand in that case.