VAVolsFan2009
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Football's not brutal. Fighting lions is brutal. Football's one of the rougher popular sports but the risk of serious injury in any one game is minimal.
I don't disagree but why not also sit out playoff games conference championship games as well as the last regular season game? What makes a bowl game more susceptible to injuries?
And I don't disagree but when you (the athletes) opt out, you start paying your own way.
I'm willing to bet your grandpa would have the same opinion as me.
Hooker says hi. Tillman says hi.
Bo Jackson says “Bo knows single tackle career ending hits.”
Marcus Lattimore says “I tore every ligament in my knee and had nerve damage man. What’s your idea of brutal homie?”
Willis McGahee says “bruh my leg spun like a clock hand. I went 12 whole hours in one hit.”
The list of players who have been seriously injured on a single odd play is numerous.
He bounced between a couple different mining companies in VA then ended up retiring from a quarry in TN.
Went with whoever paid him the best and not some misguided sense of duty to a company that didn't give two s**ts about him or anything other than the bottom line.
Sounds kind of familiar given the topic of the thread. But then again, I can separate sports from real, every day life for the common person.
Pot meet kettle. I absolutely understand the mindset and reasoning. Understanding doesn’t have to equal agreement.
I just don’t understand this mindset. Nothing has changed since the vast majority were outside any championship talk. They mean just as much today as they did thirty years ago. That’s simply fact.
They already did, for about 10- 11 games, but folks want to damn them for opting out of one game. A where all their work to achieve their ultimate goal can be easily ended with a single hit in that one meaningless game. Now, if those same folks are willing to pick up the slack from the lost income. Fine. But we know they're not so... What it boils down to is certain fans want their viewing pleasure, the outcome for the player be damned.
I'm not the players. I don't own them. I'm not their parents, or agent. I can't speak for them. I just support their right to choose what they think is best for themselves. I wouldn't want anybody presuming to dictate what I can or can't do when faced with a choice that's purely my own business.
We claim football is a business. Then when players treat as such, we all huffed and puffed about them being selfish and unappreciative. Well, it is no different than a business assessing financial risk, determining if their investment is a worthwhile option or not, and taking the most acceptable and necessary or protective action. A case of maximizing profit, as it were. Long live capitalism!
You leaving out one little nugget here. The fans are the employers.I'm not the players. I don't own them. I'm not their parents, or agent. I can't speak for them. I just support their right to choose what they think is best for themselves. I wouldn't want anybody presuming to dictate what I can or can't do when faced with a choice that's purely my own business.
We claim football is a business. Then when players treat as such, we all huffed and puffed about them being selfish and unappreciative. Well, it is no different than a business assessing financial risk, determining if their investment is a worthwhile option or not, and taking the most acceptable and necessary or protective action. A case of maximizing profit, as it were. Long live capitalism!
I have to say... I am firmly in the "I hate it" category.
I totally get that you want to not risk getting injured, but you aren't the only reason you have a shot at the NFL, your team had a lot to do with that as well. Are you a QB who the NFL wants in the first round? Well a big part of your success was your line blocking for you, and your receivers catching the ball. Are you a receiver? Your line blocked for your QB, who then threw you the ball.
Jauan Jennings will forever be a legend to this program, and hell would freeze over before that dude would ever sit out a post-season game. He had too much pride in himself and his team to abandon them, that's who you want on your team.
An example would be Alontae Taylor. I genuinely believe Heup finishes his first year at 8-5 with a bowl win if Alontae doesn't sit out. After his coaches/team helped him get some NFL attention, he costed them a loss and a disappointing end to a fun season.
Maybe I'm just old fashioned, but you stay until the job is done. See this thing through with your team, you're all in this together.
They have the same opportunity to be injured in the last regular season game and a conference championship. Once your done playing if not injured they or their agents can start to pay. That's not damning them that's life in a capitalist society. In this country we are given only opportunity well for now we are
Opt out for reasons only beneficial to you in any business and see what happens.
You leaving out one little nugget here. The fans are the employers.
How many fans have ever played major college football? Played in pain, barely been able to walk after a game, had medical attention or rehab after playing?
It’s laughable that some question the integrity of those that have given far more to the program than we ever have. Some of these kids can make life changing money bc of the sacrifices they’ve made for this program.