American football causes brain damage and the sport needs to be banned. Happy Super Bowl!
My treat is lecturing others on why their treat consumption is bad. And cocaine, I really really love cocaine.
Anyone else here lie completely outside of the American_civil_religion_loop (football, basketball, marvel, star wars, game of thrones, breaking bad) for the last 30 years?
I wouldn't call that The American Civil Religion. That's just mainstream cultural media.
potato potato
Ive been outside the loop my whole life
Breaking Bad is good
I was going to answer yes because I'm entirely estranged from streaming services, but there's plenty of entertainment products I consume. I guess I partake in slop as a treat
Yes
Nah. I dont watch sports anymore but i do watch and enjoy all those scripted things.
My treat is lecturing others on why their treat consumption is bad.
Still a treat, you're still treat chasing.
And cocaine, I really really love cocaine.
Cocaine is like the worst treat. It's made by slave labor and sold to fund right wing paramilitaries, all just to make you feel like you drank four red bulls with a prozac. Seriously, eating a T-bone while watching Game of Thrones, Breaking Bad and jerking it to BDSM porn is probably more ethnical than a Coke habit.
Cant hear you over the middle of my nose dissolving
ethnical
New slur just dropped
FUCK
BDSM is likely going to be a safer porn to watch than vanilla stuff. But you're talking about something with a shit-ton of rules (if it's done right) and a community that is more likely to be showing off their stuff willingly.
A lot of the theory and practice around positive, informed, active consent that I've learned over the years I learned from people in the BDSM scene. The good folks in that scene understand it and take it extremely seriously. Like no matter how vanilla the sex is, I always talk about safe words with people first, and check in regularly, because its a useful tool to have even if you never need to use it. And I learned that from hanging out with BDSM people.
I wonder if this is going to be like those oxycontin commercials from the early 2000s. It's non-addictive, you can get as much as you want for anything that hurts, trust me I'm a pharmacist bro I'm regulated. Las Vegas really solidifying sports betting as the anything anytime anywhere casino seems so ominous.
I have friends betting on which song will be played at half time 🫠
But they got MLK's draft speech writer in the commercial. Clearly that means the zionist entity is wholesome and good.
Just another chapter in our very boring dystopia. Millions of Americans desperately searching for some sense of community and attaching themselves to a billionaire’s chess game and developing a parasocial relationship with their team, all for some fleeting dopamine
Sounds like everything else in America eh
There's gambling. I'm a stats nerd so I gamble tiny $ on football games because of that. It's a lot of fun.
One thing I've never understood; The players aren't even from your home town or state. They're just random dudes. Why are you so attached to the franchise? It's not really related to you at all, it's just a brand.
I'm a huge mma nerd so I'm not allowed an opinion on the damage of football lol and that's ok.
Aha. I should've read the top comment before making a long one defending football.
Football and boxing cause more CTE than mma
What did you as a fan think of "fighting in the age of loneliness" if you've seen it? Its basically my only foray into any sort of combat sport.
I would have to watch it again, it's been a second, but I did enjoy it. I thought it was an excellent general history of the modern era of combat sports. The political tie ins were a little...I guess just kind of tacked on? I understand what Felix and Bois were going for, how the rise of it coincided with these political vibes, but I remember it not coming together as nicely as I thought it could. Regardless I enjoyed their views on that, since even if not optimal it's more nuanced and abstract commentary on a topic that is dominated primarily by fucking morons who probably think the matrix was the most confusing film ever made.
MMA fighters take less hits to the head then most other combat sports so they actually get less concussions. More bodily injuries though.
Kinda depends. A lot of mma guys are sparring boxing/muay thai/kickboxing basically constantly. Dudes sparring 10 hours a week are going to take a lot of damage over a couple decades. Obviously football and boxing also have issues in training and are rougher during actual time, but it can be really bad for MMA guys too. Chute box dudes are known for sparring at almost 100% all of the time and regularly having gym wars. Also if a fighter finds success in weathering the storm then those guys are gonna be real bad off (Spencer Fisher, Tony Ferguson)
honestly just make them play without pads.
CTE happens in sports without pads, like soccer and rugby. However, Im assuming it’s worse in American football.
From what i understand they found that pads and helmets meant guys could hit each other harder and more often, which lead to more minor cte/tbi events that accumulate over time.
you typically don't full-tilt headbutt another 250 pound guy in those sports.
it's not that injuries happen at all, it's the rate, severity, and long-time coverup.
Rugby is safer for that reason. Players learn the helmet can be a weapon so then the rules committee had to ban that.
American football causes brain damage and the sport should be mandatory until every American is a drooling moron incapable of inflicting more horror upon the global south.
Mixed on football, but what really pisses me off is when I’m being critical of it and I get a bunch of “🤓 ummm football is actually one of the most complex sports in existence and you’re showing your ignorance. There’s nothing that comes close to such intellectual prowess”
Godamn I really need to move to China, maybe AI will make the language barrier easier to work through
It's so complicated that a four hour long game broadcast only features ~ ten minutes of actual play.
Hey its literaly exactly like chess realy, you're just big dumb for not realizing it yet, it only takes about 1s to move a piece, if each player does 40 moves that is just barely 2 minutes of action in a 3 hour match, perfectly normal cool and good, the real battle happens in their minds not on the board.
“🤓 ummm football is actually one of the most complex sports in existence and you’re showing your ignorance. There’s nothing that comes close to such intellectual prowess”
And then football itself is just "bunch of big guys do a running hug so hard they all get brain damage, this goes on for 15 seconds and then there's a half hour commercial break. This continues off and on for 5 hours."
I've been watching for 25yrs. The rules are crazy complex and more complex than chess or any other sport. Complex rules don't make for a smarter game though. Now the rules are getting more complex in the name of player safety.
Smartest sport is definitely Chess Boxing
Soccer/football has a concussion problem that no one talks about either. Hugo Lloris like had a year of play lost because he was kept in game. Sports have physical risks ✌️
I mean when blood sports and combat sports exist, are extremely popular, and haven't died out or been banned despite getting punched or kicked in the head to the point of losing consciousness being a key part of these sports, I don't see how contact sports like American Football or Rugby will be banned or die out. I do think more needs to be done to make contact sports safer though. I like the changes rugby made with regards to cards for high tackles and the scrum, it makes the sport look safer than when by friends played it in high school.
They are inherently fun to play, even if dangerous.
Get rid of the pads, longer time outs after a concussion, a maximum number of concussions before forced retirement, solid education of players on the effects of repeated TBIs, high pay for athletes to compensate for that risk, high quality healthcare for those that do suffer injuries, and of course nationalize it so that the profit motive doesn’t fuck with the rest of those things
Oh and do ban it for minors, that shit’s fucked. High schoolers can play flag football but tackle football has to go
A big problem is they basically pull kids from highschool, give them vast amounts of money with no guidance, then dump them. Afaik most pro sports people blow through all their money in a few years and often have no job skills.
Reject tackle football embrvce flag grvdivon
American football causes brain damage
Yes. And players have it even worse.
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American Football causes brain damage and the band needs to be banned. Happy listening!
Imagine if
did a cover of Never Meant. It would heal America. Mom said it's my turn on the lathe of heavenAmerican Football house (Taylor’s version) and it’s just a mansion
The brain damage is people obsessing about a damn sport and shooting up shit when your team loses or wins (I'm in fucking Kansas City and I'm fucking dreading for when the super bowl ends, I ain't going to get any sleep.
Can confirm, didn't get any fucking sleep either. Firing on one single cylinder at work today and my dog was scared all night too.
I don’t think it needs to be banned necessarily. Full contact sports have been a thing since forever. I don’t watch nor do I know the history of football so I don’t know why it seems to be different to other contact sports, but I’m sure someone could explain and maybe figure out a solution.
Well, it's. A bunch of things. The players have gotten massively bigger with steroids and scientific body building. So instead of two 160lb guys whacking each other like in the 1920s it's two 300lb guys. Helmets and pads let people hit each other real, real hard without ijury to the body, so they're getting hit more often, so they've got more chances for tbis. Tbis result from anything that knocks your brain around, not necessarily things that cause concussion. They build up over time, causing more and more damage.
And this is just subjective, but people seem a lot more vindictive now, hitting people harder when there's no need.
We had this problem in a larp. Headshots were illegal, but even accidental blows to the head could add up so we were really encouraging people to start wearing helmets and head protection.
That is pretty crazy. I saw someone mention that they should remove the excessive padding since that would make guys think twice about hitting and being hit, which would be good I think. Would also make training focus on speed and endurance instead of strength, which would make guys smaller overall and discourage steroid abuse. It sounded like a good idea I think.
Overall it’s kinda insane that every sport has weight class distinctions, but in football you can have brick walls playing against speedy twigs and it’s completely fine.
removing pads and helmets could do a lot to make the game safer; afaik no other contact sport besides hockey gives players that much "armor."
if making players not hit each other as hard doesn't reduce injury enough you could turn the NFL into a flag league. i don't have viewership numbers but anecdotally the Pro Bowl was still pretty fun to watch this year
I agree, humans were Never Meant to play such a violent sport
I hate this but it is extremely funny
Lol
I font likesportsball because the popular kids bullied me insvhool gor being fat and slow
Make billionaires play it
non-contact sports are superior (i play a non-contact sport, not professionally though)
I actually like sports and no sports are not bourgeoisie touch some grass
Sports are great, save for golf and American football. But billion (or trillion?) dollar sports franchises and the whole slew of evil things they do is super valid. Hell, I love fencing and a little bit of soccer myself, even if I've usually just contented myself with solo distance runs.
i feel like thats just capitalism doing the usual thing of ruining perfectly fine things, nationalize sports
except golf burn that shit
I used to love cocaine, but it wasn't edgy enough so I started doing meth.
Replace american football with actual football already
Hey now! I like American Football. It brings joy to millions of Americans and to the players lucky enough to get paid to do it and not have catastrophic brain damage.
Plenty of things cause brain damage. Most Zs and Millenials on the left support the legalization of drugs.
War causes much more brain damage and mental problems than football and we have far more soldiers than football players. Abolish war!
And hockey. Don't know if it also causes brain damage, but ban it anyway because it is embarrassing to watch 40 year old men beat each other with sticks because they scored too many goals or something stupid like that.
I don't see how it's any more damaging to athlete's bodies than most other sports, it's just particularly harmful to the brain.
it's just particularly harmful to the brain.
that's what makes it so dangerous. That's your decision making center. If you get your ankles and knees fucked up playing basketball or soccer, you aren't going to get CTE and start having random episodes of uncontrollable rage as a result.
random episodes of uncontrollable rage
A key part of this discussion is how often this sort of symptom manifests at different levels of play. Many (probably most) long-term pro players never exhibit this, and the vast majority of players never make it past high school, meaning their risk is much lower.
Then there's the whole layer of "a million things are bad for you, do you ban all of them?"
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not to go all uncle Rico, but I had fun playing football in high school. probably wouldn't let my kid play it tho. I probably got two concussions playing and i question if it's fucked with my memory after all these years.
I got concussed twice while skiing and I gotta say it made at least a small impact.
They should just give a concussion to the team owners for every concussion received on the field
tbf at least 20% of the brain damage seen in football players comes purely from being am*rican