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I've never been a football fan. Until the sport is made much safer, I wouldn't let any (theoretical) child of mine play.
That having been said-- Doesn't it look like the NFL is just a crime ring at this point. If this were anything BUT America's favorite sport, would we allow the amount of illegal activity, lack of safety, and profiteering in the name of making a buck?
I think leaders of the NFL should be indicted under the RICO statute at this point for the number of players' lives who've they've ruined.
I've never been a football fan. Until the sport is made much safer, I wouldn't let any (theoretical) child of mine play.
That having been said-- Doesn't it look like the NFL is just a crime ring at this point. If this were anything BUT America's favorite sport, would we allow the amount of illegal activity, lack of safety, and profiteering in the name of making a buck?
I think leaders of the NFL should be indicted under the RICO statute at this point for the number of players' lives who've they've ruined.
No more or less than the government is for all the same reasons you enumerated.
Think of the NFL as part of the states propaganda wing with how it is continually glorifying the military. Im sure that will help your type get more comfortable with it.
No more or less than the government is for all the same reasons you enumerated.
Think of the NFL as part of the states propaganda wing with how it is continually glorifying the military. Im sure that will help your type get more comfortable with it.
I've never been a football fan. Until the sport is made much safer, I wouldn't let any (theoretical) child of mine play.
That having been said-- Doesn't it look like the NFL is just a crime ring at this point. If this were anything BUT America's favorite sport, would we allow the amount of illegal activity, lack of safety, and profiteering in the name of making a buck?
I think leaders of the NFL should be indicted under the RICO statute at this point for the number of players' lives who've they've ruined.
Ambulance chasers, plain and simple. They probably blew through all of their money irresponsibly and are broke and are looking for a pay day. If they were stupid enough to NOT know that taking powerful painkillers has side effects, it's on them. They CHOSE to play the game, nobody forced them. They made more money than most people will make in their life times. They need to sit down and ****.
Well, the NFL would not, I think, meet the criteria of the Federal RICO laws.
I recommend, to anyone interested, the book by Jerry Kramer, of the Green Bay Packers, called "Instant Replay", concering the 1968-69 NFL season. Mr. Kramer noted that during halftimes various players would be popping various pain pills and taking shots of novacaine to mask the pain. He even noted one player who played with a broken leg (not discovered until after the game). This practice has been around a long, long time.
However, that does not mean it is 'right'. We must wait for the suit to progress (if it does; there is no guarantee that the court will approve the request for 'class action' status). At the least, I hope the owners of the NFL wake up and recognize that such practices will, sooner or later, turn off fans (or, at least, so I hope). No doubt such practices also occur in college football.
Good grief? Your proposal is more absurd than, almost, anything I have read on this forum today.
These are adults who submit themselves to voluntary usury.
If you are so principled, why don't you start by throwing away the device you are typing on? Their, and their families, lives are ruined for fractions on pennies on the dollars these NFL players "lives are ruined" for.
If you don't like the sport, don't play it or watch it. Grown men should be capable of making up their own mind. If I don't believe what a doctor tells me, I go and see another doctor.
I've never been a football fan. Until the sport is made much safer, I wouldn't let any (theoretical) child of mine play.
That having been said-- Doesn't it look like the NFL is just a crime ring at this point. If this were anything BUT America's favorite sport, would we allow the amount of illegal activity, lack of safety, and profiteering in the name of making a buck?
I think leaders of the NFL should be indicted under the RICO statute at this point for the number of players' lives who've they've ruined.
It's a dangerous game. Those players knew it going into it, and did so under their own free will. Not to mention the huge salaries that today's players have.
Well, the NFL would not, I think, meet the criteria of the Federal RICO laws.
I recommend, to anyone interested, the book by Jerry Kramer, of the Green Bay Packers, called "Instant Replay", concering the 1968-69 NFL season. Mr. Kramer noted that during halftimes various players would be popping various pain pills and taking shots of novacaine to mask the pain. He even noted one player who played with a broken leg (not discovered until after the game). This practice has been around a long, long time.
However, that does not mean it is 'right'. We must wait for the suit to progress (if it does; there is no guarantee that the court will approve the request for 'class action' status). At the least, I hope the owners of the NFL wake up and recognize that such practices will, sooner or later, turn off fans (or, at least, so I hope). No doubt such practices also occur in college football.
Why would it turn off fans. We knew this was going on like forever. Doesn't bother me one bit, they consented to it all.
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