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George Will: Football’s enjoyment is on a fade pattern

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Post by Turtleneck Mon Sep 04, 2017 6:59 pm

Autumn, which is bearing down upon us like a menacing linebacker, is, as John Keats said, a season of mists and mellow fruitfulness and chronic traumatic encephalopathy (CTE). Actually, Keats, a romantic, did not mention that last part. He died before the birth of the subject of a waning American romance, football. This sport will never die, but it will never again be, as it was until recently, the subject of uncomplicated national enthusiasm.

CTE is a degenerative brain disease confirmable only after death, and often caused by repeated blows to the head that knock the brain against the skull. The cumulative impacts of hundreds of supposedly minor blows can have the cumulative effect of many concussions. The New York Times recently reported Stanford University researchers’ data showing “that one college offensive lineman sustained 62 of these hits in a single game. Each one came with an average force on the player’s head equivalent to what you would see if he had driven his car into a brick wall at 30 mph.”

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Post by DWags Mon Sep 04, 2017 7:25 pm

Is OTPT George Will?
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Post by Turtleneck Mon Sep 04, 2017 7:29 pm

OTPT is Jared Kushner.
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Post by Other Teams Pursuing That Mon Sep 04, 2017 7:39 pm

“the last bastion of hope for toughness in America in men.”

Harbaugh really said that? Yeah, fuck football.
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Post by DWags Mon Sep 04, 2017 7:47 pm

As much as I love football, it's hard not to agree. It's modern day gladiators and we're the drunk roman audience yelling for more.
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Post by NigelUno Mon Sep 04, 2017 8:09 pm

George Will is on a fade pattern.
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Post by TheReal_LWS Wed Sep 06, 2017 12:29 pm

George Will. ROFL
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Post by tGreenWay Wed Sep 06, 2017 1:43 pm

gHost Spartan wrote:
DWags wrote:As much as I love football, it's hard not to agree. It's modern day gladiators and we're the drunk roman audience yelling for more.
The slight difference being that gladiators were essentially slaves who were forced to fight to the death and modern day football players earn millions of dollars and choose to play. But I see your point.

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Post by Floyd Robertson Wed Sep 06, 2017 1:45 pm

tGreenWay wrote:
gHost Spartan wrote: The slight difference being that gladiators were essentially slaves who were forced to fight to the death and modern day football players earn millions of dollars and choose to play. But I see your point.

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Post by tGreenWay Wed Sep 06, 2017 1:48 pm

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Post by Rocinante Wed Sep 06, 2017 3:03 pm

Bee is back. Break out the ROFLs!
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Post by Other Teams Pursuing That Wed Sep 06, 2017 3:58 pm

Rocinante wrote:Bee is back. Break out the ROFLs!

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Post by Space Lord Thu Sep 07, 2017 9:11 am

When George Will was a professor at MSU I took a class he taught called Poly-Sci 170 - "The Isms." He was a droner. The students were bored with him and he was bored with them.
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Post by Floyd Robertson Thu Sep 07, 2017 9:16 am

Space Lord wrote:When George Will was a professor at MSU I took a class he taught called Poly-Sci 170 - "The Isms."  He was a droner.  The students were bored with him and he was bored with them.

What year was that? I took "The Isms" in '79 or '80. I don't remember it as Poly-Sci 170, and sure don't remember Will as the prof. I had no idea he even taught at MSU.
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Post by Space Lord Thu Sep 07, 2017 3:04 pm

Floyd Robertson wrote:
Space Lord wrote:When George Will was a professor at MSU I took a class he taught called Poly-Sci 170 - "The Isms."  He was a droner.  The students were bored with him and he was bored with them.

What year was that? I took "The Isms" in '79 or '80. I don't remember it as Poly-Sci 170, and sure don't remember Will as the prof. I had no idea he even taught at MSU.

The year would have been '68 or '69. The class was Poly Sci 170 "The Isms - Communism, Socialism and Fascism" (not necessarily in that order). I don't believe that Will lasted another year at MSU, if that.
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Post by Space Lord Thu Sep 07, 2017 3:13 pm

Floyd Robertson wrote:
Space Lord wrote:When George Will was a professor at MSU I took a class he taught called Poly-Sci 170 - "The Isms."  He was a droner.  The students were bored with him and he was bored with them.

What year was that? I took "The Isms" in '79 or '80. I don't remember it as Poly-Sci 170, and sure don't remember Will as the prof. I had no idea he even taught at MSU.

I should note that Will looked then pretty close to exactly how he looks now. I often have wondered if he isn't some sort of robot.
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