I'm a college guy too. i miss the violence as well. my thing is this, NFL players make millions of dollars.
Not all of them... and NFL players making millions is a relatively new thing. The highest paid player 30 years ago was Warren Moon at $1.5 Million and the average salary was about $200,000 (after multiple strikes and threats to strike). Go back 40 years ago before those strikes, the highest paid player in 1979 was OJ Simpson at $800,000 and the average salary was $68,000.
i'm paying them to see the collisions and the head hunting.
Then you're watching the wrong sport. I mean football is a violent game, but it's not in and of itself pure violence. You could watch MMA to see violence for the sake of violence. Also, most NFL games are on OTA broadcasts, so you're not directly paying them ****, certainly not enough to demand they piss the bed when they are 60 for your personal entertainment, Caligula.
when they are 60 and piss the bed and don't know their name, they knew going in to it that it was a dangerous game. thats why they are paid the millions.
Actually, a lot of those players who are 60, 70, 80 years old now didn't have the understanding of how dangerous it was, what the long term effects were and the NFL went out of its way and spent millions to downplay, distort, and outright discredit any evidence that showed those long term effects.
they sacrifice their older years to have fun and live the dream when they are young. i'm ok with that.
Maybe to an extent... bad back, bad joints, various orthopedic issues, but people are KILLING THEMSELVES, man. Literally taking their own lives from this. Or living with/dying from ALS.
bring back "Jacked Up" and give awards to the biggest hit. now, i dont want them intentionally hurting someone, but if someone gets hurt, its part of it.
Meanwhile, back in reality, you lead with "I'm paying to see head hunting". I agree injuries are part of the game, but if there are protections to take care of the Central Nervous System (primarily brain, neck, and back), then we should do that at the risk of sacrificing a small portion of the entertainment value. That can be taken too far however.
once again, thats why they make millions and millions of dollars.
Once again, most of them don't make 'millions and millions' of dollars. For every Fletcher Cox, there are hundreds of Paul Olivers.
nothing pisses me off worse than a flag for form tackling. or bumping a QB too hard, or whatever the **** call that was called.
Now, that we can agree on. Logan Cooke's hit a few weeks ago getting called, totally deserving of ridicule. The Tom Brady 'bubble' is totally deserving of ridicule. I think hearts are in the right place on the targeting penalty, but the execution and enforcement has got to be cleaner and better defined.
i feel like we have let our wives and their book clubs rewrite the rules.
I'm sorry, we already have a Mutt the Hoople, so the overt misogynist spot's taken.
