You know how they say that everyone reads an article for the ideas they already believe.
I'm afraid that watching Oberman on MSNBC do his political rants
has poisoned my appreciation of him.
After reading both articles and watching the video, I'm with Pendola's friend
who dissected Oberman's critique, mainly based the second sentence in that email:
Quote:
One, he failed to acknowledge the obvious hyperbole
in Prisco's comments and attacked him as if it was said straight...
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This is Oberman - straight faced and full blown
I read Prisco's entire column and found it quite easy to separate many
of his remarks as such hyperbole, and ended up agreeing with his final remark:
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The good news is the league will do more to make it safer.
The good news is the NFL, as we know it, isn't going anywhere.
That's the best thing of all.
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FWIW, I don't follow sports and have no idea who the various named players
were in Oberman's video, or even what happened to them.
I do feel sympathy for those who were actually injured in the game.
... just as I feel sympathy for those in the military who are injured or killed.
But there is something to be said for the voluntary nature of
professional sports
as well as a straight forward risk/benefit analysis of the changing "state of the art" in sports medicine.