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That was definitely a head scratcher. Andy is usually smarter than that.
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That was definitely a head scratcher. Andy is usually smarter than that.
Thanatos
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I was under the same impression until I took a moment to collect myself and review the last few minutes. That game 'may' have gone a different way of we had one more time out!
Lol don't get too mad, I just like Balt cuz of the 2000 championship team. I don't mind the steelers at all.
Lol don't get too mad, I just like Balt cuz of the 2000 championship team. I don't mind the steelers at all.
Thanatos
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I should have listened, when you didn't warn me 
DrinksWithEvil
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lol the chiefs ex coach,coach on espen said that KC are starting to play good QBs and might lose the rest of their games
an interesting little mini-documentary on ESPN right now about pro football players and concussions. saying how one former NFL athlete has to take a picture of his hotel room every time he leaves it, because he won't remember which one he is staying at when he is on his way back. they also compared the NFL to the bloodshed that was found in the Roman Coliseum - always a fitting metaphor
honestly if you gave me the pay that those guys get and all the glory/memories that goes with playing professional football, I would take that in a second over head injuries later in life. I would be buying my mom a house and living up my pro days - but I guess I could be considered crazy?
what about ya'll?
honestly if you gave me the pay that those guys get and all the glory/memories that goes with playing professional football, I would take that in a second over head injuries later in life. I would be buying my mom a house and living up my pro days - but I guess I could be considered crazy?
what about ya'll?
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MikeOekiM
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id think anyone who wouldnt take the opportunity to play in the NFL would be crazy, not the other way.
any former player who sues the nfl is a joke imo
Football is a violent fucking sport, its what makes it so appealing to many people. I think the comparison to the roman collessium is very apt, football is a physical battle! When a sport is as violent as footbal, there are going to be repercussions for the participants. Many of them will have their health deteriorate significantly once they hit middle age, but thats no excuse to pussify the game! These guys get payed millions of dollars to play a game 16-19 times a year. Many of the top players get lucritave advertising deals, or use the fame they got from playing football to make a living in some other way. What would these kids be doing if they werent playing football? I hate to say it, but in a sport dominated by black people (lets face it, many of them grow up with the temptations of drugs/gangs/other illegal activity) I think playing and excelling at football at a young age does a lot of good for a lot of kids.
It seems to me like the players want to have their cake and eat it too, they want all the money and fame that comes with being our modern day gladiators, but they dont want to have to deal with the havok it wreaks on their bodies. Its bullshit if you ask me, they knew what they signed up for.
What I think should happen.
1: In order to play in the NFL, every player signs a waiver that absolves the NFL of any harm that comes from football related injuries later in life.
2: Along with the waiver, once a player enters the league, they get free healthcare for life, along with a small stipend if their football related injuries prevent them from working later in life.
3: The league continues to implement their rules against helment to helmet hits on defenseless players, but focuses more on issuing fines and suspensions to violators, rather than handing out game changing penalties every time a hit looks bad.
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its more about the guys who dont get millions of dollars (all contracts are pre-tax figures btw, everyone forgets this. Have you looked at YOUR paycheck lately? gross /= net) yet still were lied to by the NFL about concussions.
If they had just been up front about this shit like they are trying to do now, there wouldn even be a lawsuit
but they denied any link from concussions to permanent brain injury while making BILLIONS off big hits and gladiator-esque behavior
I dont take either side really, the players know the risks, the league knows the risks
all that is expected is just some honesty, which the NFL and its large team of lawyers never seems to have to resort to
If they had just been up front about this shit like they are trying to do now, there wouldn even be a lawsuit
but they denied any link from concussions to permanent brain injury while making BILLIONS off big hits and gladiator-esque behavior
I dont take either side really, the players know the risks, the league knows the risks
all that is expected is just some honesty, which the NFL and its large team of lawyers never seems to have to resort to
Call me crazy but I think a half mil a year for a few years should have you set for life. Kids just dont plan accordingly and choose to live like rappers for a few years.
Thats another thing the league should do, have a big financial seminar for all rookies every year where ex-players come and talk about how short most NFL careers are and how important money management is.
Wyld 4 X
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This actually happens (on the 49ers anyway). I know a guy who used to work for them and one of his duties was to educate the rookies on the basics of financial responsibility. He told me many of these guys, especially the more coveted ones, had been so sheltered that they didnt even know how to write a check, set up utilities in their name, etc. because they were made to live like kings so to speak. The problem is these kids and the money they are making so early believe the moochers who have been hanging with them since childhood and let them "manage" their money. Sad.
Thanatos
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Sorry, but they already have that covered. It's called the rookie symposium. All players must pay their agent a percentage of their salary, up to 10-15%. NFL contracts are never guareenteed, most players come out of the league handicapped and without any hope of future employment.
The average American is likely to earn 1.2 million dollars over their lifetime, while NFL players will only earn about half as much with most of it being earned/heavily taxed in a very short amount of time. Quite a few ball players feel obligated to relieve their families from poverty as well, something the average person would never have to even consider.
Kenickie
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Black people being rescued from the desperate clutches of depression era poverty and raised up to the million dollar milky white tit of the NFL is an outlier, not the norm, Care. most of them are from normal, working or middle class families, from the country or from the suburbs, they go to college and play college ball and then most of them don't go to the NFL and go on to lead normal middle class lives as insurance salesmen or EMTs or bankers or whatever they went to college for. if you're looking for every-black-player-is-like-The-Blind-Side, look at basketball - where they recruit straight out of high school.
not all black people live in cities, especially in the south. rural living is kind of shit, but it's shit for everyone, including the white people who live there. they play football not to escape the terror filled running the streets gang warfare - but because it's a way for them to go to college, which most likely their parents never did, or older brother never did, or whatever.
education is an extremely stressed high priority in black families, education is the way for black children to not end up in prison or dead. no black mother says hurry up be good at football so you can go to the nfl, they say be good at football because they'll pay for you to go to college. but i know you don't know that, since you've never met a coloured person in real life.
not all black people live in cities, especially in the south. rural living is kind of shit, but it's shit for everyone, including the white people who live there. they play football not to escape the terror filled running the streets gang warfare - but because it's a way for them to go to college, which most likely their parents never did, or older brother never did, or whatever.
education is an extremely stressed high priority in black families, education is the way for black children to not end up in prison or dead. no black mother says hurry up be good at football so you can go to the nfl, they say be good at football because they'll pay for you to go to college. but i know you don't know that, since you've never met a coloured person in real life.
AND the first team to be eliminated from playoff contention is the Atlanta Falcons!
it wasn't supposed to be like this! Matt Ryan was coming back from his best year, Tony Gonzalez was returning for one more Jerome Bettis-like chance at glory! it was Super Bowl or Bust.... well bust done won out!
it wasn't supposed to be like this! Matt Ryan was coming back from his best year, Tony Gonzalez was returning for one more Jerome Bettis-like chance at glory! it was Super Bowl or Bust.... well bust done won out!
GenericMind
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The Bills are going to demolish the Falcons this week even worse than they did to the Jets before our BYE.
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im sure he's been stuck behind at least one placing a lengthy order at a fast food chain
Have you seen the ESPN 30 for 30 episode called 'Broke' that shows how a few of them end up spending/losing a lot of their money? It was pretty good, and I think you can watch it here.
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