Boston Globe Magazine: Why You Should Stop Watching Football

You don't think an economic war is being waged by the Globe against the Krafts?

Why you should stop watching football - Magazine - The Boston Globe


Rah, rah, Red Sox!

if written seriously, that man needs to check into Shady Acres for 6 months of Haldol and electroshock therapy

In other words......

The country should stop watching its #1 sport, and focus its attention to basebore so it stops dying its long and painful death.

shmessy said:

You don't think an economic war is being waged by the Globe against the Krafts?

http://www.bostonglobe.com/magazine...ng-football/FYbCW73jay4MzeMQ6pC5TK/story.html

".....Over the past year, I’ve studied the history of football and thought a lot about what the game means. I’ve come to believe that football fosters within us a tolerance for violence, greed, misogyny, and militarism. I believe it does economic damage to our communities and to the national soul. These are some of the reasons why I’ve stopped watching."

Rah, rah, Red Sox!

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This bit REALLY stopped me: "I believe it does economic damage to our communities and to the national soul." Good lord. It wouldn't surprise me if this tripe was ghostwritten by some Cambridge-dwelling femi-Nazi. "He" makes post-concussion syndrome seem like a noble pursuit.

If this truly is part of a pro-Bankofamericasox/anti-Patriots editorial agenda, it's journalism at its absolute worst. And Azorian is right -- baseball is fast sinking into anachronism.

The Red Sox are still in last place I think? I guess if you're desperate for viewership and readership, you turn to poop like this to push the agenda.

The comments section is telling...there are a lot of lemmings that buy it

Well we have given this guy what he craves - attention. His article from his upcoming "book" is not even worth commenting.

Tunescribe said:

This bit REALLY stopped me: "I believe it does economic damage to our communities and to the national soul." Good lord. It wouldn't surprise me if this tripe was ghostwritten by some Cambridge-dwelling femi-Nazi.

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You mean Dan Shaughnessy?

PATSNUTme said:

Well we have given this guy what he craves - attention. His article from his upcoming "book" is not even worth commenting.

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That's an old argument. It's in the Globe Magazine. It already has attention. I assure you it does not die on the vine if this forum ignores it. And anyone who has enough interest in the Patriots to arrive at this forum and this thread already has enough interest in football not to shell out money for a book that tells you that it is all bad for you.

I think if you asked most people in this world if they would rather live until 79 (or whatever) poor or even just getting by VS mid 50's as a multi-millionaire athlete who has a chance to have dementia in the later years they would chose to be poor .

Unfortunately I do think that football "could" take a hit over the next couple of generations as more parents wont let their kids play......Will it have a long term effect on the NFL is another matter.

I didn't know recreational weed was legal in Massachusetts. Still he shouldn't be doing it at work.

Scratch that. Not even the most potent genetically modified, hydroponically grown, radioactive alien brain eating weed can mess up your head that much. SMH

Here's the author with his wife, from his website. She's feeling for his balls (since he apparently has none). Any hope he has of his forthcoming book being taken seriously is doomed by that photo. What an idiot.

My hometown of Arlington has completely been infested by moonbats.
Reading this tripe, the author does not just despise football.

So, this guy no longer hates women and has stopped conducting military exercises in his neighborhood, since he stopped watching football? I think that's a good thing.

I would like to hear more about how it has stopped him from being greedy, though.

Last paragraph: "But the central reason remains the most basic: because consuming as a form of entertainment a game that causes human beings to suffer brain damage is wrong. It would be convenient to ignore this fact or rationalize it away. It would also be immoral."

Immoral? Strong stuff. Morality is about Good vs Evil. The leap he makes is that watching football is Evil because people get injured playing the game. People are dying at alarming rates in accidents while texting. Is texting evil?

Slippery slope, Mr. Almond. People get injured in every sport. Therefore, all sports are evil?

Almond is wrong that anybody involved in football, including fans, are ignoring or rationalizing away serious injuries. Almond ignores entirely and gives no credit to anyone for advances in helmet and pad technology, rules changes, training for coaches at every level to teach techniques to reduce head and neck injuries, etc, etc.

Mr. Almond should take a few minutes to investigate his subject, and come down from his pulpit and work to find solutions to problems he cares about.

The magazine is nothing more than an extension of the Globe newspaper. Even prior to making the decision to buy the paper, Henry must have seen the increasingly depressing numbers of the Globe specifically and of print media in general. The NY Times (which was the prior owner) just had a story last week of their own poor numbers and consequences around advertising. It's my opinion that Henry has allowed the paper to become more of a lightning rod for societal issues whether it be a 4-5 pages of student overcrowding in city apts, the J. Remy incident or this editorial view that football is misogynistic and from it was born ISIS.

Bruins29 said:

I think if you asked most people in this world if they would rather live until 79 (or whatever) poor or even just getting by VS mid 50's as a multi-millionaire athlete who has a chance to have dementia in the later years they would chose to be poor .

Unfortunately I do think that football "could" take a hit over the next couple of generations as more parents wont let their kids play......Will it have a long term effect on the NFL is another matter.

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Truth be told, I do think football as taken a hit already. Less parents/guardians are allowing their kids play pop warner today then they were 10+ years ago because of either the concussion concerns and also because football is an expensive sport to play.

However I have been hearing about the lower leagues wanting to get rid of tackle, and making pop warner a flag football league, until a certain age. I know many will disagree with this, but I think that will actually be better for the game in the long run.

But the football problem pales in comparison to what baseball going through ...

Little league baseball across the country is dying out. Kids are finding the sport to be too slow paced and boring. Kids don't want to play or watch games anymore. There's a huge problem in baseball, and I don't know if there is anyway to fix it.

My career as a software developer makes me far more likely to suffer from carpal tunnel syndrome. Therefore, the use of software is immoral. Look at all of us with our computers just ignoring how wrong this is. It is shameful the way all of you are ignoring my health.

And forums, don't even get me started on the immoral impact on my wrists for writing up this post. All of you lurkers owe me surgical funding. It would be convenient to ignore this fact or rationalize it away. But the fact remains that typing this out has caused detrimental wrist issues that cannot be fixed unless you all stop reading.

Haley said:

My career as a software developer makes me far more likely to suffer from carpal tunnel syndrome. Therefore, the use of software is immoral. Look at all of us with our computers just ignoring how wrong this is. It is shameful the way all of you are ignoring my health.

And forums, don't even get me started on the immoral impact on my wrists for writing up this post. All of you lurkers owe me surgical funding. It would be convenient to ignore this fact or rationalize it away. But the fact remains that typing this out has caused detrimental wrist issues that cannot be fixed unless you all stop reading.

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Striking the keys on a keyboard is militaristic.

**** John Henry, his newspaper and all of his sports teams. As the aging baseball fan population starts to dwindle, so will baseball.