I've said this before in previous entries and elsewhere.. American football the way we know it right now in its peak of greatness... Most popular, violent beyond belief and legal violence is at it's peak.. The end is very near for the sport as it is.. Why do I know this.. Check the number of players getting hurt, and not just tweaking an ankle here or a knee there.. They are getting really hurt.. And people are taking notice and it will begin to take it's toll on participants.. There are already a lot of people choosing to not let their kids go out for football... This trend will continue even though the league everyone strives to play in is trying to get less violent and improving safety.. Example of them getting safer, Brandon Marshall for the Broncos first game was taken out early in the game for concussion protocol, a set of tests they run in the locker room.. Well later in the game Cam Newton for the other team was dinged and should have had the same thing happen to him.. This was deep in the fourth quarter and would have had him out the remainder of the game... There can be no two rules about this.. It can't only apply to a player in the meat of the game and not the same rules for the two minute warning on..
http://www.chargers.com/news/2016/09/19/chargers-react-losing-danny-woodhead-season?sf36389527=1
Chargers lose Danny Woodhead for the season... Thinking about this was when they were negotiating with Von Miller and all that money and if he gets this kind of injury the season is severly in trouble... He isn't the only great player on a defense that is set to wreak havoc on every team they play.. But imagine losing him and another great and suddenly they are talking about a completely different scenario for the season..
I listen to the radio and there are different hosts that say that football might be outlawed in the not too distant future.. It is a rough sport but.. I have seen videos of kids playing high school football and they get called for this or that penalty and the kids hit the refs.. To me if a kid hits a ref that is assault and that means the kid should be carted off to jail.. The coaches need to tell them if you attack the ref you are no longer playing a sport, you are assaulting an unarmed civilian and can face jail time..
Things are just getting out of control with football and truth be told the coaches should be in better control.. Do some refs deserve to be attacked if they are calling a game wrong or in more favor of one team or another.. That is wrong, and should be watched by an officials official.. Keep things being called right.. Does a ref deserve to be attacked by a player?? no.. NEVER.. Just play right..
I never really played football when I was younger, mostly because when I was younger I was at best puny.. I was small and not aggresive enough to pull off being a football player.. I went out when i was in Junior high but after two years of "playing" (riding the bench) I decided it was not that kind of fun for me.. I mean why go out, go through all the fun of practice if i wasn't going to play a little.. Didn't hurt my feelings not to play but I practiced all that time why bother.. I was easily confused but not really.. I wanted to play but.. not really..
Getting hurt is always on your mind, it was on mine anyway.. And so not playing is easier than bothering with it.. Some kids aren't aggressive enough, and some aren't big enough.. Size matters and players who start in the pee wee leagues are players who's fathers likely could play.. Mine didn't ever play football, he didn't care for the sport, but when I was growing up I liked the game.. My brother would get the tv set to a game when we were little and he would watch it, and so I watched it a little, and I asked him about it and he told me a few things.. From then on i've really liked football although it was nest to impossible to see the college team we wanted to see, we did get to see different pro games.. We had two channels to choose from.. My brother would put on the game we would watch and that is what we would see...
When will football end?? Really I've said by 2050 it will likely still be played, but it might be virtual reality.. There won't be any physical injuries but virtual, and that might be worse because the player won't have an actual scratch on him.. But the computer world will see him as banged up.. That's going to be hard to get used to.. Hard to say I'll be around for that,,, You never know..
Badge Henry
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