What's so Manly about American Football? - Page 3

monster · 10-26-2009, 08:45 PM

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Originally Posted by Cloud

"perpetrating a troll"? is that, like, a hanging offense?

well it's about time something was well hung around here, cause those footballers sure ain't.

btw "Peewee" is not manly. Who TF thought that was a good name? it cracks me up that the hockey players go from mini-mite to mite to squirt to peewee -whiich is middle school age-

Cloud · 10-26-2009, 08:44 PM

the hazards of football, an article:

http://www.newyorker.com/reporting/2..._fact_gladwell

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There were men with aching knees and backs and hands, from all those years of playing football. But their real problem was with their heads, the one part of their body that got hit over and over again.

“Lately, I’ve tried to break it down,” Turley said. “I remember, every season, multiple occasions where I’d hit someone so hard that my eyes went cross-eyed, and they wouldn’t come uncrossed for a full series of plays. You are just out there, trying to hit the guy in the middle, because there are three of them. You don’t remember much. There are the cases where you hit a guy and you’d get into a collision where everything goes off.

jinx · 10-26-2009, 08:46 PM

Ours are mighty-mite, mite, and midget - I just like to say peewee.

Cloud · 10-26-2009, 08:47 PM

read the article--it's scary.

monster · 10-26-2009, 08:53 PM

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Originally Posted by Cloud

read the article--it's scaremongering.

fixed that for you.

Imagine an article written in the same style about people driving cars and getting in crashes.

monster · 10-26-2009, 08:49 PM

What's manly about inviting brain damage?

ZenGum · 10-26-2009, 11:57 PM

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Originally Posted by monster

What's manly about inviting brain damage?

Football is carefully designed so that the damage only occurs to parts of the brain related to feelings, hygiene and dress sense. How much more manly do you want?

Cloud · 10-26-2009, 08:50 PM

nothing. don't let your kids grow up to be footballers.

monster · 10-26-2009, 08:56 PM

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Originally Posted by Cloud

nothing. don't let your kids grow up to be footballers.

sure-fire way to get a footballer is to ban them from playing, I reckon

Everyone told me the last thing I wanted was a hockey player... but I got one. Sure, I'm worried about his teeth and brains and limbs, but if I stop him rather than support him, the damage mey be even less fixable.

ZenGum · 10-26-2009, 09:26 PM

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Originally Posted by monster

Sure, I'm worried about his teeth and brains and limbs, but if I stop him rather than support him, the damage mey be even less fixable.

Limbs heal. Teeth are replacable. Only brain and spine are really crucial and vulnerable. Helmets help.

I think your management strategy is wise.

monster · 10-26-2009, 09:35 PM

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Originally Posted by ZenGum

I think your management strategy is wise.

thanks ...but you wander off in the bush alone. Now that is manly, but.......

(and we really need a pic)

xoxoxoBruce · 10-27-2009, 02:00 PM

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Originally Posted by monster

thanks ...but you wander off in the bush alone. Now that is manly, but.......

No, manly is taking a bulldozer, or better yet a tank, and taming that damn wilderness.

TheMercenary · 10-27-2009, 08:18 PM

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Originally Posted by monster

thanks ...but you wander off in the bush alone. Now that is manly, but.......

(and we really need a pic)

You could always fall back on this...

http://www.irb.com/

Cloud · 10-26-2009, 09:00 PM

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Imagine an article written in the same style about people driving cars and getting in crashes.

we need something like that. so much uproar over little things, when we are wilfully blind about a practice that kills thousands of people every day.

monster · 10-26-2009, 09:02 PM

there are plenty of articles like that. We just ignore them because we have to to continue our everyday lives with some shred of sanity.

10-26-2009, 08:46 PM	#3
jinx Come on, cat. Join Date: Nov 2003 Location: general vicinity of Philadelphia area Posts: 7,013	Ours are mighty-mite, mite, and midget - I just like to say peewee. __________________ Crying won't help you, praying won't do you no good.

10-26-2009, 08:47 PM	#4
Cloud ... Join Date: Feb 2007 Posts: 8,360	read the article--it's scary. __________________ "Guard your honor. Let your reputation fall where it will. And outlive the bastards!"

10-26-2009, 08:49 PM	#6
monster I hear them call the tide Join Date: Dec 2005 Location: Perpetual Chaos Posts: 30,852	What's manly about inviting brain damage? __________________ The most difficult thing is the decision to act, the rest is merely tenacity Amelia Earhart

10-26-2009, 08:50 PM	#8
Cloud ... Join Date: Feb 2007 Posts: 8,360	nothing. don't let your kids grow up to be footballers. __________________ "Guard your honor. Let your reputation fall where it will. And outlive the bastards!"

10-26-2009, 09:02 PM	#15
monster I hear them call the tide Join Date: Dec 2005 Location: Perpetual Chaos Posts: 30,852	there are plenty of articles like that. We just ignore them because we have to to continue our everyday lives with some shred of sanity. __________________ The most difficult thing is the decision to act, the rest is merely tenacity Amelia Earhart

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