Ethically how can we continue to watch football?

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DeadsetAce said:
DWS...taking 20 years off your life does not equate to dying at 70, bro :lol:

even if you figure the average life span is 80 (which is definitely high), you're looking at 60 tops :lol:
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I'm ready to retire soon, DSA. Just wanna watch sports with the homies over endless Sammy, and continue sleeping with beautiful women across the globe.
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i hear that man...i've been out of school less than 10 years and i'm ready to be done with working :lol:
 
There are things you do in your daily life which harms more people than pro football.

Unless you don't own a vehicle or wear Nikes those two industries have harmed more human beings more than football ever will.
 
I would trade lives with anybody in the nfl without thinking twice
 
Favre – who over two decades was sacked 525 times, more than any other NFL quarterback – says he has started to lose his memory and fears the damage to his brain will get worse.

“I don’t remember my daughter playing soccer, playing youth soccer one summer. I don’t remember that,” Favre told the Washington sports station WSPZ-AM on Thursday. “This was pretty shocking to me that I couldn’t remember my daughter playing youth soccer, just one summer, I think. I remember her playing basketball, I remember her playing volleyball, so kind of think maybe she only played a game or two. I think she played eight. So that’s a little bit scary to me. For the first time in 44 years, that put a little fear in me.”

http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/pages/front...god-only-knows-the-toll-from-nfl-concussions/
 
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DipsetGeneral said:
I don't even find football entertaining anyhow. I'm with OP, on this one.
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I find football entertaining and i wanna try to leech myself off of the sport.

Someone said to me recently while watching a game "you're watching these players slowly kill themselves" 

It made me feel guilty about even watching the sport. 

We need to think about how we contribute - as consumers of NFL products/watchers of the sport- to the epidemic of brain trauma in NFL players.
 
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That's so messed up (regarding Brett). Regardless my son will not play football. My nephew plays and I hate it. Saw him get concussed and tear a knee ligament....he isn't even in HS yet
 
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Op soft

What we should be talking bout is why we still support the NCAA when the rules is outdated n they taking advantage of the players
 
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I can see suburban parents pulling their kids out of football but outside of that? Nah

In the south it doesn't matter cause football is God
 
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frshstunna said:
Op soft

What we should be talking bout is why we still support the NCAA when the rules is outdated n they taking advantage of the players
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I agree with this too 

should i start another thread about the NCAA's issues?

- exploiting their student athletes

- all the players who have died of sickle cell complications 

- lack of preparedness for post college life by student athletes (senator cory booker spoke about this issue to a congress hearing i think)

Just because I start this thread, doesn't mean I support the NCAA's exploitation of student athletes

my opinion on the two issues is not mutually exclusive 
 
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yeah roughly $200K isn't enough for these college athletes. they deserve more money....


*****WTBS
 
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do work son said:
DeadsetAce said:
yeah roughly $200K isn't enough for these college athletes. they deserve more money....


*****WTBS
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what universities cost 200k for 4 years of undergrad?
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anywhere you come in from out of state. any private school.

4 years @ 40-45K per year. free housing. free food. stipends. 200K is totally realistic.

even if you call it 100K. same thing. they're not playing for free. there are so many people in their 20's struggling with student debt right now...and people have the balls to cry about student athletes not getting paid.
 
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Them getting paid is debatable and you can make good points for and against that.

However I take issue with them being restricted to make money off their name and brand. How homey from Georgia is facing discipline for getting paid to sign autographs is laughable
 
At least these guys get compensated handsomely for putting their health on the line to carry out the duties of their occupation.

There are other jobs in this country with worse outcomes and no one blinks.

Capitalism and exploitation go hand in hand.

Not going to concern myself over the plight of millionaires.
 
Don't feel guilty at all. How did these guys not know the risks? By the time I was ten yrs old I had 3 concussion dr. Told my parents it wasn't safe to play. That it's easier to get concussions after the first one. That continued head truma could ruin my memory. That was 18 yrs ago.

Do you expect me to believe that these guys are just learning this info. Heck I didn't really need a dr to tell me that smashing my head in would effect my memory. It's common sense. My parents knew before the dr. Told me, they just made me hear it from the dr so I'd shut up and stop asking.

Heck dude from the cardinals is a vet. Says he already suffering memory damage and is fighting to still play. Should I feel sorry for him, he's no where near 22.

These are grown men who chose to play. If they were smart they'd play their rookie contract, make some money and retire while their brain isn't completely mush. At like 25 yrs old But they continue to play as long as physically possible. If someone got their brain bashed in during the rookie contract and planned to just play their rookie contract to get financially stable I'd have sympathy. But these dude milk it as long as possible.
 
I have a relative who played for the 49ers and told my mom to never let me play football due to the suffering he goes through now.

I still played though.
 
OP and others, what would you guys like to see the league do? I hear this argument and think to myself, what can honestly be done. It is the nature of the sport.
 
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