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Message: [QUOTE="Dogdeacon, post: 3253474, member: 1026"] Sports in general require players (especially) and fans alike to buy into the importance & commit everything. Being part of a team by definition means sacrificing the individual for the collective. Football because of its violence is the team sport where this attitude is most essential for success. Therefore it is always going to be hard to stop & met with outrage necessary to prevent the charade from ending. It is a dramatic juxtaposition when someone proves that individual well-being is in fact more important than the sport. So if sport is THAT important to you there is almost no choice but to make it hard for someone to quit (such as the outlandish importance attached just to the word 'quit') or to just pound your chest and yell "NA NA NA LA LA LA" until the noise of reality dies down. [/QUOTE]