theGronk
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CLICK HERE to Register for a free account and login for a smoother ad-free experience. It's easy, and only takes a few moments.Weird, FTW disagrees with me i'm shocked.
As a side point, just because you agree with yourself, and some other random MB knuckleheads doesn't by default make you correct.
It just makes you easily led.
Well, you're welcome to refute the content of my post. Instead, you do this, which makes you a troll (and not a very good one)
I've made my point, i'm not going to sit here and argue with you, neither of us are going to change eachothers minds, especially since you've already labeled me.
We're going to go back and forth saying exactly what we've already said in slightly different ways. Do you seriously want to go that route?
To me it seems like you (and a few others) wont be content until you get your way and get me removed from the boards because we have a difference in opinions.
It's kinda sad really.
IMO football is the most dangerous sport, in your opinion it isn't... What can i possibly say that will change your mind? Nothing, right? Then let's just jump about a million monotonous steps and assume the same is true for me as well.
...IT IS quite literally the MOST violent sport. It's a fact...
IMO football is the most dangerous sport, in your opinion it isn't... What can i possibly say that will change your mind? Nothing, right? Then let's just jump about a million monotonous steps and assume the same is true for me as well.
I don't like the ref being overruled, makes him feel like an ass for no reason. He's just as capable of making the call as the guy in the booth.I don't get the rationale behind not sending reviews up to the booth
I agree that boxing is more violent than football, but that won't matter one iota when the NFL is in court defending against lawsuits files by ex-players.Football isn't the most violent sport on earth by a long shot. That's just ridiculous.
As a side point, six boxers have died in the ring in the last five years.
Also, using "they wear helmets and pads" as an example of what makes the sport more brutal, rather than less... yeah, that's a fail.
I agree that boxing is more violent than football, but that won't matter one iota when the NFL is in court defending against lawsuits files by ex-players.
The NFL knows it has to be able to prove in a court of law they did everything they could do to minimize injury so, as much as people hate to hear this, these stricter rules just aren't going away.
I'm honestly trying to tell you that there's a difference between a sport where the objective is physical injury, and a sport where physical injury is an inevitable side effect for some participants.
You claimed that American football is:
I disagreed with your reasoning. First off, a great many sports require protective headgear. If, as you say, protective gear requirements are a sign of brutality, then does the incredible violence of rugby, with its high injury rates, somehow not count? Is bare-knuckle boxing less brutal than boxing with gloves?
In your response, you suggested that death rate instead is the true marker of brutality. In that case, pole vaulting and surfing are far, far more brutal than, say, peaceable kickboxing.
I've never claimed that tackle football isn't violent, that would be silly. I'm just saying that unlike gladiator fights, football's objective isn't injury -- and that matters enormously in how you structure the rules.
I don't like the ref being overruled, makes him feel like an ass for no reason. He's just as capable of making the call as the guy in the booth.