George Will: Football’s enjoyment is on a fade pattern
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George Will: Football’s enjoyment is on a fade pattern
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.”
https://www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/americas-waning-romance-with-football/2017/09/01/5e26a344-8e7b-11e7-91d5-ab4e4bb76a3a_story.html?tid=ss_fb&utm_term=.dfd71776d399
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.”
https://www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/americas-waning-romance-with-football/2017/09/01/5e26a344-8e7b-11e7-91d5-ab4e4bb76a3a_story.html?tid=ss_fb&utm_term=.dfd71776d399
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Is OTPT George Will?
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OTPT is Jared Kushner.
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“the last bastion of hope for toughness in America in men.”
Harbaugh really said that? Yeah, fuck football.
Harbaugh really said that? Yeah, fuck football.
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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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George Will is on a fade pattern.
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George Will. ROFL
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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.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.
^ Somebody ^ likes his Russell Crowe movies.
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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.
^ Somebody ^ likes his Russell Crowe movies.
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Bee is back. Break out the ROFLs!
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Rocinante wrote:Bee is back. Break out the ROFLs!
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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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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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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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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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