NFL Discussion Thread: Pats win SB XLIX. Offseason begins

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ICE CITY FC said:
Football is going nowhere. :lol:

However I could see ANY type of helmet/head contact being disallowed way down the line.

NFL is a financial juggernaut. Certain CFB conferences alone are juggernauts.

Beyond that the game is deepy ingrained in America's social fabric in many parts of the country. 
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:lol: this has nothing to do with its popularity. It's about the players who play the game
 
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ICE CITY FC said:
Football is going nowhere. 
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However I could see ANY type of helmet/head contact being disallowed way down the line.

NFL is a financial juggernaut. Certain CFB conferences alone are juggernauts.

Beyond that the game is deepy ingrained in America's social fabric in many parts of the country. 
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this has nothing to do with its popularity. It's about the players who play the game
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Again, if you think players are going to stop playing you're wrong - it's not going to happen. 

We will see the NFL and youth football governing bodies continue to make changes before a meaningful number of players or their parents stop them from playing. 
 
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5 years from now the elite quarterbacks are gonna be at or around 200 million with 75-80 guaranteed. ****** ain't walkin away from that B
 
C'mon Ice. You seem knowledgeable about football. Most NFL lineman are as highly skilled as they come. The nature of the game itself -- especially in the trenches -- makes head to head contact unavoidable.
 
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C'mon Ice. You seem knowledgeable about football. Most NFL lineman are as highly skilled as they come. The nature of the game itself -- especially in the trenches -- makes head to head contact unavoidable.
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20 years ago we would have said some of the contact that occurred in the secondary was unavoidable though no?

I'm not saying the game wont change, over the scope of a generation, it might change drastically. I'm saying there's not going to be a decrease in either popularity or league revenues. 
 
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I think it's fair to assume that in order for the game to go on it's going to become nearly unrecognizable in 20-25 years, no? Many of us here will probably lose interest because it doesn't resemble how we know it now. And I think that's the NFL's biggest concern.
 
I remember reading about some company adding magnets to helmets, and reducing the speed they make contact at. Maybe I'm overly optimistic, but I just see there being too much money  being made for them to not come up with something.
 
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For every 1 guy leaving for health concerns there a 1,000 guys lined up ready to take his spot. Football will be here.
 
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Rolaholic said:
I'm starting to think that there might be something to that curse of Candlestick stuff :lol:
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Told ya. :smh:
We STILL gonna give everybody in our division that work :pimp:
Niners coming back to claim that division title
Then conference title
Then that Lombardi trophy
Yeeeeeeaaaaaahhhhhhhhhhh
Aaaaaaaaaaaahhhhhhhhh
Wooooooohooooooooo
I can't wait to show all y'all we back and ain't letting non of these setbacks stop us
We too raw for that
Nuh uh
Ain't NOTHING stopping us
RAAAAAAAAAWWWWWRRRRRRRRR
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Your Dipset General/Koudie fusion posts are highly amusing
 
Maybe I shouldn't have singled out secondary but what about all the rule changes and points of "emphasis" implemented during our life time alone. Spearing disallowed, hits with the helmet disallowed, hits to the helmet disallowed, defenseless receiver, etc. There's been serious intent to make the game less physical for decades.
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But most of all this was avoidable going back that 20 years you brought up. In fact, 20 years ago I was in my 3rd year of playing football and up to that point -- and the many years after that -- they never ever taught tackling by way of helmet to helmet contact or leaving your feet and leading with your helmet. Somewhere the fundamentals are lost as kids get older and with big hits being glorified, but it was definitely avoidable. Basically, there needs to be a shift back to the tackling methods they teach all the way back in pee-wee, but even then...on the NFL level -- with the size, speed and power of these guys -- a lot of contact is simply unavoidable without completely changing the landscape of the game, which we've seen starting to happen for the past 10 years or so and that's without this wave of new understanding on brain damage.

I love the game, but I feel like I'd be way too gullible or naive to think that it wasn't in jeopardy.
 
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