Bounty Player Suspensions

#52
#52
_vol said:
I am certainly to blame here. I had forgotten about the high population of consummate badasses we have roaming around who have completely lost touch with reality.

If you are unable or refuse to see the big picture here then you prolly think guys like dave duerson and junior seau had "gambling" issues.
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Well to be fair, mine was more an attempt at humor


(though a joke I felt bad about as soon as I made it)
 
#56
#56
The Saints should get a TV ban for 2012 like college does for really bad teams.
 
#58
#58
Vercingetorix said:
This is obviously a decision that adult men are entitled to make. But what about high school kids? And what about college football -- the players might be 18, but how many of them are going to sign a waiver absolving the schools of any future brain damage when they're not even getting paid anything?

This is how American football is going to be radically overhauled -- from the bottom up. How's it going to be business as usual for the NFL if high school and college football either vanish or change dramatically?
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I would imagine that almost any college kid who had aspirations of playing beyond college would happily sign a waiver if it meant keeping his dream alive. Also, the farther down the tree of football you get, the less violent the game becomes as players are smaller and slower the farther removed from the NFL you get. I'm sure there would be some parents/athletes who would ultimately be steered away from football into other sports due to the violence, but IMO, to a large extent, the people who had serious concerns about the violence were probably already not playing football in the first place. I certainly don't think the amount of people who would be turned away from football would be enough to "kill the sport".

Also, like I mentioned in my earlier post, are there really people out there who can make their peace with the possibility that at any second on a football field you could be paralyzed and never be able to move any part of your body again, yet now somehow can't come to grips with potential brain damage that might or might not be caused by multiple concussions? One of those dangers is as old as the game of football itself, and isn't going away thanks to all the recent changes, and one is supposedly new, and even though it seems far less serious, is what the NFL is trying to legislate out of the game.
 
#59
#59
bleedorange0037 said:
I would imagine that almost any college kid who had aspirations of playing beyond college would happily sign a waiver if it meant keeping his dream alive. Also, the farther down the tree of football you get, the less violent the game becomes as players are smaller and slower the farther removed from the NFL you get. I'm sure there would be some parents/athletes who would ultimately be steered away from football into other sports due to the violence, but IMO, to a large extent, the people who had serious concerns about the violence were probably already not playing football in the first place. I certainly don't think the amount of people who would be turned away from football would be enough to "kill the sport".
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You're going to have a hell of a time finding enough players to fill out enough teams if the only players you have left are guys who believe they have a legitimate shot at the NFL. The number of teams would have to be cut way back. The number of players on a team would have to be cut way back.

Also, like I mentioned in my earlier post, are there really people out there who can make their peace with the possibility that at any second on a football field you could be paralyzed and never be able to move any part of your body again, yet now somehow can't come to grips with potential brain damage that might or might not be caused by multiple concussions? One of those dangers is as old as the game of football itself, and isn't going away thanks to all the recent changes, and one is supposedly new, and even though it seems far less serious, is what the NFL is trying to legislate out of the game.
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Right now the damage is all invisible and time-shifted, which means it's theoretical, which means it can largely be ignored. It's going to be far different in a few years when Johnny the Tailback can stick his head into a machine after a big hit and they can see a black spot in his brain that wasn't there at the beginning of the season.

I'm not any happier about this than you are. I'm just realistic about what it all means for the future of the sport.
 
#60
#60
Vercingetorix said:
Right now the damage is all invisible and time-shifted, which means it's theoretical, which means it can largely be ignored. It's going to be far different in a few years when Johnny the Tailback can stick his head into a machine after a big hit and they can see a black spot in his brain that wasn't there at the beginning of the season.

I'm not any happier about this than you are. I'm just realistic about what it all means for the future of the sport.
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They can already see it. For some reason which is still relatively unknown, when certain individuals incur prolonged head trauma the proteins released in the brain seemingly calcify. In others this does not happen. This crystallization over time causes many challenges for the individual and sometimes unfortunately death.
 
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