I don't think there is a need for any further alteration of the sport. My hatred for kunt sports journalists grows everyday. I would guess over half of the sissies that appear on Around the Horn or the Sports Reporter types of shows secretly would like to end football...hell throw in half the kunts doing Sports Center. If you took a poll of PHD's ...any fucking journalism major for that matter I would bet 90% of them would gas football right now.
We are still hearing this CTE bullshit, yet-
http://www.breitbart.com/Breitbart-Sports/2014/01/23/CTE-Junk-ScienceHighlights-
If you want journalists to mock you, say aloud that chronic traumatic encephalopathy (CTE) has “an unknown incidence” among football players and that “a cause and effect relationship has not yet been demonstrated between CTE and concussions or exposure to contact sports.” That’s just what many of the sports world’s best brain scientists did in a consensus statement at the 4th International Conference on Concussion in Sport held in Zurich in November 2012.
The few dozen autopsies conducted with a selection bias on brains presupposed to be damaged doesn’t amount to a randomized, unbiased study, the likes of which has been done to prove, for instance, the causal link between smoking and cancer. No such CTE study exists, despite the Boston Globe editorializing in September, “The link between football and CTE is about as clear as that of smoking and lung cancer in the ’60s.” But by 1960, the world was four years removed from the British Doctors Study that demonstrated the relationship of smoking to lung cancer. As the Randolph-Guskiewicz-Karantzoulis study shows, researchers are nowhere near the stage of scientifically determining the causes of CTE.
Perhaps the most troubling issue spotlighted regards the Center for the Study of Chronic Encephalopathy, whose researchers, in contrast to other neuroscientists, have remarkably found CTE in nearly every brain from deceased football players that they have inspected. The Boston University group’s threshold for what constitutes CTE includes the presence of neurofibrillary tangles (NFTs), which appear in the brains of almost every older American. The trio writes that “the only requirement for satisfying a neuropathological diagnosis of CTE was the presence of tau-positive astrocytic tangles and NFTs. Because NFTs are present in a variety of neurodegenerative disorders and are also evident in most normal older individuals, this classification criterion deserves further scrutiny.” The article cites a study that found NFTs in 97 percent of older people.
Junk science has consequences—$765 million of them for the NFL, quack cure-alls in health food stores, and playing fields resembling ghost towns. In a Massachusetts courtroom, a high school football player charged with murdering his girlfriend even employed CTE as a defense in his trial earlier this year. The court rejected his not-guilty-by-reason-of-football defense. But journalists writing about another Massachusetts murder case involving a football player have already named CTE as an unindicted co-conspirator. Philadelphia magazine’s Joel Mathis asks, “Did football drive Aaron Hernandez to murder?” Comparing football hits to cigarette smoking, Mathis wonders whether CTE-caused violence might be the sport’s equivalent of second-hand smoke. But with no existing science demonstrating that football causes CTE, what causes the leap in logic that being a member of the New England Patriots, rather than the Bristol Bloods, nudges a man towards murder?
Nick79 wrote:Me too, at that age, we had a tackle football game in the park every day of the week from August until Christmas pretty much. But you don't see that anymore, anywhere. If I see a group of kids randomly playing any sport, any pick up game, other than maybe basketball, I am shocked!
The coolest thing I see now is at this park near me, that is close to a Muslim school, there are all these immigrant Muslim kids, who pull NFL jerseys over their Taliban robes and play tackle football.
Man, it's about as scientific as the CTE studies...but I'm in the deep south and they aren't hearing this bullshit for a second...and more then just the athletes thats one of the reasons the SEC is so dominant. Look at baseball as well. It might be a 105 degrees down here...and still you drive by any park and the fields and courts are full of little savages of wide age variation doing what has come naturally since we were primarily hunter gatherers. There is a tiny fraction of golf only parents down here, while that seems to be the rule in the north now. I've got a friend in Texas originally from PGH and he says it's much the same there as compared to PGH. I realize the state of education in these parts...but I'm really thinking it's more large urban meme versus small town willful ignorance.
If there is a single issue that pisses me off the most it's this one. Every fucking gen X broad with an advanced education read It takes a Village...and actually still believes in that bullshit. So we get this generation of record setting fat, coddled sissies....
goofwell needs to be rousted for other things but this certainly contributes to the disdain fans have towards him. Thanks John "Baby Huey" Madden.
