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I see at least one poster mentioned the Super Bowl on this board, so I'll take the chance of calling something else related to football to your attention.
On the 50th anniversary of the Super Bowl, George Will in the Washington Post today writes about the demise of football: https://www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/super-bowl-sunday-the-day-america-celebrates-football—and-brain-damage/2016/02/05/4afc537c-cb81-11e5-88ff-e2d1b4289c2f_story.html.
I grew up loving football with the advantage of watching a long line of legendary quarterbacks arrive and play at the U. The Dolphins further fueled my enthusiasm with their own great players and the only perfect season in NFL history. On 3 nights a week, we could watch boxing matches pitting the best fighters against one another.
By now I have given up on boxing and its dreadful off-spring, cage fighting. When you contemplate the objective of those “sports,” it seems like a return to ancient Rome, replete in its barbarity. Just can't watch folks trying to pummel each other into a bloody pulp. Entertainment? Not for me.
Now I've stopped watching football for precisely the reasons Will points out in his article. It's just too violent and leaves its participants with long-term injury and the prospect of dementia and of early death. I can't abide the crowd roaring when someone is left unconscious and twitching on the field after a vicious hit, while the announcers assure us that it was “perfectly clean.” It all seems pointless, and I will miss the first Super Bowl of my life (I've seen them all). May everyone survive unscathed.
On the 50th anniversary of the Super Bowl, George Will in the Washington Post today writes about the demise of football: https://www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/super-bowl-sunday-the-day-america-celebrates-football—and-brain-damage/2016/02/05/4afc537c-cb81-11e5-88ff-e2d1b4289c2f_story.html.
I grew up loving football with the advantage of watching a long line of legendary quarterbacks arrive and play at the U. The Dolphins further fueled my enthusiasm with their own great players and the only perfect season in NFL history. On 3 nights a week, we could watch boxing matches pitting the best fighters against one another.
By now I have given up on boxing and its dreadful off-spring, cage fighting. When you contemplate the objective of those “sports,” it seems like a return to ancient Rome, replete in its barbarity. Just can't watch folks trying to pummel each other into a bloody pulp. Entertainment? Not for me.
Now I've stopped watching football for precisely the reasons Will points out in his article. It's just too violent and leaves its participants with long-term injury and the prospect of dementia and of early death. I can't abide the crowd roaring when someone is left unconscious and twitching on the field after a vicious hit, while the announcers assure us that it was “perfectly clean.” It all seems pointless, and I will miss the first Super Bowl of my life (I've seen them all). May everyone survive unscathed.