Football is racist

[Yakuda]

Football is certainly a near-guarantee of permanent future debilitation.
Whether or not it's racist is hard to say.

We give athletes of all races, but mostly African-Americans, scholarships that they usually didn't academically earn,
and then academia uses them to go into the sports entertainment business.

The athletes want to be paid money now, because what could be very valuable scholarships are meaningless and of no value to them.

At this point, I feel comfortable in saying that all major sports in America are pretty much out of control.
I predict a colossal crash within the next few years, and that, from the standpoint of perspective, could be a good thing.

Its irrelevant whether if it's racist or not it's all voluntary.

[Yakuda]

Football was one of those things that helped relieve racist views of White people about Black people.

When Jim Brown started running through defenses like a bullet, people started sayin, You know these Black people are pretty good athletes.

Jim Brown went on to becoming a top Box Office attraction and great Western Movie Star! That was unheard of before football changed things for the better good.

His Westerns are some of my favorites!

All of that supposedly in a "systemically" racist America.

[Nordberg]

POS write crap like that because they want to destroy sports thus make more people unhappy and are more likely to become unhinged and add to the pot of chaos across the continent to help WEF POS with divide and conquer.

You have a crazy conspiracy for every occasion. Yeah, sports are being destroyed, for some crazy reasons. It is a huge cabal of evil people fucking up sports as they continue to grow and make more money.

[Nordberg]

Solution: Eliminate all sports where blacks can get hurt. That or prohibit blacks from participating in those sports.
If they want to participate, make them all black leagues and disallow whites from being spectators.

Blacks? Everyone who plays football gets hurt. It has nothing to do with color, but it being a collision sport. Concussions and CTE impact all colors and nearly every player. It is a sport that publishes its injured player list before a game.

[LurchAddams]

I am beginning to think this stupidity is never going to end

https://www.scientificamerican.com/a...-in-football/#

From the article

"Football is a spectacle where excessive violence is mundane, because hits that cause injuries are a constant occurrence, and spectators are desensitized to it. Consumers of the sport assume players will withstand any bodily affront, so they are shocked when a player’s physical limits are exceeded, often on very public stages. People with a vested interest in professional football rationalize excessive violence in this structured space, as well as the ones that encompass college, high school and peewee play, all because they assume that rules, equipment, and regulations exist to prevent death. But this is false protection. While this form of entertainment has been normalized, Hamlin’s injury demonstrates that ordinary violence has potentially deadly consequences, and highlights how Black men’s athletic labor sustains this brutal system.

On these playing fields, ones that sociologist Billy Hawkins would argue are never theoretically far from plantation fields, financial stakeholders value Black bodies for their productive potential and physical prowess. The league encourages and facilitates rigorous training and disciplining so players can execute seemingly impossible corporeal demands all in the service of entertainment, money-making, and insatiable fandom. In the words of sociologist and activist Harry Edwards, “like a piece of equipment, the black athlete is used.” While I am not aware of research that compares the rate of injury between Black and white football players, heatstrokes, ACL and labrum tears, ankle sprains, bone breaks, and concussions are just a few of the consequences of how these bodies are used."

The gridiron is the "plantation field"

Oh, no. You're off your meds again, aren't you?

[Geeko Sportivo]

All of that supposedly in a "systemically" racist America.

Well, perhaps people will think differently about the Police problem being strictly a racial problem, when they watch the film tonight of Black Policemen treating their own with such poor disregard.

So, good point.

Everything is not about racism!

[LurchAddams]

Football uses young men as meat missiles


It destroys lives


I understand people love to watch football


That does not make it something that should just continue


Football needs to change


Period



I have no idea if they can change enough to make it reasonable and able to survive


But it needs to change

What are you talking about? I played Rugby for years and me just fine.

Wait - what were we talking about? <wink>

[Yakuda]

Oh, no. You're off your meds again, aren't you?

You have my dick in your mouth again.

[Yakuda]

Well, perhaps people will think differently about the Police problem being strictly a racial problem, when they watch the film tonight of Black Policemen treating their own with such poor disregard.

So, good point.

Everything is not about racism!

It is to the racists.

[LurchAddams]

You have my dick in your mouth again.

Shit, I thought it was a toothpick. How often to you go around sticking your micro-junk in men's mouths?

[AProudLefty]

I am beginning to think this stupidity is never going to end

https://www.scientificamerican.com/a...-in-football/#

From the article

"Football is a spectacle where excessive violence is mundane, because hits that cause injuries are a constant occurrence, and spectators are desensitized to it. Consumers of the sport assume players will withstand any bodily affront, so they are shocked when a player’s physical limits are exceeded, often on very public stages. People with a vested interest in professional football rationalize excessive violence in this structured space, as well as the ones that encompass college, high school and peewee play, all because they assume that rules, equipment, and regulations exist to prevent death. But this is false protection. While this form of entertainment has been normalized, Hamlin’s injury demonstrates that ordinary violence has potentially deadly consequences, and highlights how Black men’s athletic labor sustains this brutal system.

On these playing fields, ones that sociologist Billy Hawkins would argue are never theoretically far from plantation fields, financial stakeholders value Black bodies for their productive potential and physical prowess. The league encourages and facilitates rigorous training and disciplining so players can execute seemingly impossible corporeal demands all in the service of entertainment, money-making, and insatiable fandom. In the words of sociologist and activist Harry Edwards, “like a piece of equipment, the black athlete is used.” While I am not aware of research that compares the rate of injury between Black and white football players, heatstrokes, ACL and labrum tears, ankle sprains, bone breaks, and concussions are just a few of the consequences of how these bodies are used."

The gridiron is the "plantation field"

So dumb that Yakkie cannot comprehend the point of the article.

[Doc Dutch]

I am beginning to think this stupidity is never going to end

https://www.scientificamerican.com/a...-in-football/#

Why are you shitting your pull-ups over an opinion article? While there's truth in it, the fact remains, like COVID shots, no one is forcing anyone to do anything against their will.

Only a fucking moron would compare career NFL players to plantation slaves or Tyre Nichols.

From the link:
"This is an opinion and analysis article, and the views expressed by the author or authors are not necessarily those of Scientific American."

[Doc Dutch]

So dumb that Yakkie cannot comprehend the point of the article.

He's angry and wants to fight. He's a lot like Matt and Sailor in that regard.