Boston Globe Magazine: Why You Should Stop Watching Football

shmessy said:

Striking the keys on a keyboard is militaristic.

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It is unmitigated keyboard violence. Someone should think of the children.

PatsWickedPissah said:

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

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Exactly true, on both counts. He at least has a semblance of a point on the brain damage side. But everything else in that ridiculous piece applies to every professional sport, even his no doubt beloved baseball.

He's right, guys. It's too violent. We should all stop watching football and just watch baseball instead, where the best hitters inevitably take PEDs, the best pitchers inevitably blow out their elbows, batters get drilled in the head with 100 mph fastballs, and the fans are frequently either falling to their deaths or beating each other to death.

It's a lot safer. My conscience feels cleaner already.

Keep this writer away from hockey then, he might faint at the first sight of fighting.

The Globe is trolling for hits again.But this is a pretty ****ty article and I would be embarrassed to put my name on something this atrocious. What a terribly-written piece of nonsensical rambling ********.

Certainly, the game can be made safer, and we've seen lots of changes the past few years. Obviously, more can be done as well.

Nobody wants to see injuries, but it happens in all sports (and sometimes just walking down the street). A 2011 national study on high school injuries found football players were hurt at a rate of 3.78 per 100,000 participants. But the next highest were boys wrestling at 2.50, and girls soccer at 2.42. These figures could be higher due to lack of reporting. But in America, the rate of people KILLED by traffic-related accidents is 11.6 per 100,000, and there's no ******** awkward article from the Globe about how we should ban driving.

25.9% of injuries in high school sports were related to head/face concussion. Football was slightly lower at 22.4%, while girls soccer came in above-average at 30.1%. While the NFL is working to address concussions (albeit a lot slower than they should have), there's not a whole lot being done in soccer. The last World Cup, I saw at least 2 or 3 players go back into game despite showing concussion-like symptoms (and I didn't watch every game).

This isn't to suggest that we should stop watching soccer either, or that football makes me a misogynist or whatever the **** that moronic article was trying to spit up. It's just to say that some proper context is needed when discussing these types of issues, not just some hysterical ****-up throwing **** at the wall to see what sticks. Which seems to be a lot of what the Globe produces these days.

skspikex2 said:

Keep this writer away from hockey then, he might faint at the first sight of fighting.

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Might want to keep him away from auto racing too ...

skspikex2 said:

Keep this writer away from hockey then, he might faint at the first sight of fighting.

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Don't think he's a Tony Stewart NASCAR fan then?

Post edit: d%#*!@t Uncle Rico - - same wavelength.......

Tunescribe said:

It wouldn't surprise me if this tripe was ghostwritten by some Cambridge-dwelling femi-Nazi.

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Speaking as a Cambridge-dwelling femi-Nazi, I can tell you that even I can manage a better class of tripe.

My daughter played soccer. She's had one concussion, a broken wrist and a broken ankle and she's only 24. She's moving back to Boston for graduate work and is already talking of joining an intermural league. Maybe she should consult with this Globe author first. Better yet, I'll suggest she talk with Derrick Jackson (a Globe Editorial writer) He penned a piece advocating for the use of helmets in Soccer!

Mike the Brit said:

Speaking as a Cambridge-dwelling femi-Nazi, I can tell you that even I can manage a better class of tripe.

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You might dwell in Cambridge, but I seriously doubt you're a femi-Nazi.

convertedpatsfan said:

The Globe is trolling for hits again.

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This, right here, is spot on. It's ****ty clickbait, nothing more.

Tunescribe said:

You might dwell in Cambridge, but I seriously doubt you're a femi-Nazi.

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agreed....I think he's a semi-Commie

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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reason 476 to not read the Globe.

If the Globe uses the $$ they take in this week to go out and get an ace for the Red Sox then maybe we can forgive this misguided soul. We should suggest he interview our current ace, Clay Buccholtz, about the dangers of the baseball field as a follow-up. I'm sure he has lots of good examples for him...

shmessy said:

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

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Nope, I surely don't. I think the Magazine editor, like any good editor, leapt on a provocative story idea that would spark lots of chatter, debate and backlinks. Mission accomplished, Madame Editor!

Shmessy, maybe you can soothe yourself with some Globe features about how boring baseball is:
Baseball Player Says He Doesn't Watch Baseball Because It's 'Too Long and Boring' - Baseball - Boston.com
The most boring moment in all of baseball - The Boston Globe

patchick said:

Nope, I surely don't. I think the Magazine editor, like any good editor, leapt on a provocative story idea that would spark lots of chatter, debate and backlinks. Mission accomplished, Madame Editor!

Shmessy, maybe you can soothe yourself with some Globe features about how boring baseball is:
http://www.boston.com/sports/baseba...-and-boring/v8iC0BFRRgYYhdokyMFyRP/story.html
http://www.boston.com/bostonglobe/ideas/articles/2009/05/10/the_most_boring_moment_in_all_of_baseball/

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Wow, for the second example, Chick you went back five years to a time when John Henry did not own the Globe!

For your first, it was not a "feature" and it was not an editorial at all. It was a clipped off the wires Boston.com report of a quote that day from a ballplayer. Here is the last part of the "attack" from the Boston.com writer on baseball: "Rendon has made $7.2 million playing baseball in his young career, according to Baseball Reference, so baseball can’t be that bad. I admittedly don’t sit down to watch many 3-hour baseball games, but it’s usually the background noise in my house on most summer nights."

If you want to compare that with an editorial saying it " 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." then it's a free country and it's your prerogative.

Sorry, not buying.

patchick said:

Nope, I surely don't. I think the Magazine editor, like any good editor, leapt on a provocative story idea that would spark lots of chatter, debate and backlinks. Mission accomplished, Madame Editor!

Shmessy, maybe you can soothe yourself with some Globe features about how boring baseball is:
http://www.boston.com/sports/baseba...-and-boring/v8iC0BFRRgYYhdokyMFyRP/story.html
http://www.boston.com/bostonglobe/i...10/the_most_boring_moment_in_all_of_baseball/

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Yeah, yeah, yeah. For every couple bits like that squirreled away in some back-page corner they cry long and loud multi-fold about the evils of football and those "nasty" Patriots. Anyone who has watched the Globe long enough knows this. Usually, it's trumpeted front and center as editorial commentary, like this latest piece of nonsense.

I just submitted MY piece to the Globe and I'm anxiously awaiting their reply....

Why Our Air Should Be Stopped From Breathing...by Joe Kerr-MSNBCBS

It's all around us, this stuff we call "air" and yet we pay almost no notice to how absolutely addictive this stuff really is. Ever try to NOT breathe this crap for more than a few minutes? Unbelievably dangerous! You can actually die trying to go cold turkey from this crap. It's outrageous the effect this stuff has on everybody and I think it's high time we outlawed it and made Oxygen Anonymous meetings mandatory for every citizen of every country in the world. This has got to be stopped!

Joker said:

I just submitted MY piece to the Globe and I'm anxiously awaiting their reply....

Why Our Air Should Be Stopped From Breathing...by Joe Kerr-MSNBCBS

It's all around us, this stuff we call "air" and yet we pay almost no notice to how absolutely addictive this stuff really is. Ever try to NOT breathe this crap for more than a few minutes? Unbelievably dangerous! You can actually die trying to go cold turkey from this crap. It's outrageous the effect this stuff has on everybody and I think it's high time we outlawed it and made Oxygen Anonymous meetings mandatory for every citizen of every country in the world. This has got to be stopped!

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Yet we somehow manage to turn a blind eye and rationalize it away. Go figure.

It's amazing that about 90% of responses here are so over the top defensive. I guess it means the guy has struck a nerve.

The most effective response is the acknowledge what's true about the piece and about football, and yet accept one's own position as a fan too. I never flaunt being a sports fan, and am guilty if i spend too much time with sports, but I continue on as I do with other things in my life that I am half-trapped in, and realizing all the down sides, from sheer commercialism to heavy masculine display to the upside of entertainment, strategy, and racial interest so much a part of the NFL and the NBA.