Ah yes, THAT guy.
― Ned Raggett, Monday, 13 March 2017 17:04 (seven years ago) link
I fucking hate this sport so much
― El Tomboto, Monday, 13 March 2017 17:05 (seven years ago) link
I didn't even bother to link the latest on Deadspin about the Redskins firing their GM for "drinking" when it's obvious the rest of their organization's upper echelon is a minimum of two sheets on any given Monday
― El Tomboto, Monday, 13 March 2017 17:08 (seven years ago) link
I apologize to all other organizations for using that noun to describe the thing that Dan Snyder owns
http://deadspin.com/the-amount-of-toradol-nfl-players-use-is-scary-as-fuck-1793173870
― nomar, Monday, 13 March 2017 17:11 (seven years ago) link
http://www.espn.com/nfl/story/_/id/18955466/san-francisco-49ers-legend-dwight-clark-diagnosed-als
Clark said he doesn't know if playing football caused the disease but he suspects that is the case. ALS has in recent years been linked to chronic traumatic encephalopathy, or CTE, the degenerative brain disease that studies have linked to athletes and others with a history of repetitive brain trauma, including concussions."I've been asked if playing football caused this," Clark wrote. "I don't know for sure. But I certainly suspect it did. And I encourage the NFLPA and the NFL to continue working together in their efforts to make the game of football safer, especially as it relates to head trauma."
"I've been asked if playing football caused this," Clark wrote. "I don't know for sure. But I certainly suspect it did. And I encourage the NFLPA and the NFL to continue working together in their efforts to make the game of football safer, especially as it relates to head trauma."
― nomar, Monday, 20 March 2017 04:49 (seven years ago) link
oh and now Gale Sayers has announced he's battling dementia, and so on ad infinitum
― nomar, Monday, 20 March 2017 21:19 (seven years ago) link
http://www.sbnation.com/a/future-of-football
― Jeff, Wednesday, 3 May 2017 15:51 (seven years ago) link
good read, thanks. none of that is going to happen, though.
― your cognitive privilege (El Tomboto), Wednesday, 3 May 2017 20:03 (seven years ago) link
idk if we're in a talent drought in 5 years b/c nobody wants their kids to play high school football, the NFL might try all sorts of goofy shit
either way if you feel guilty for watching football too much may I suggest making basketbal your main sport. the playoffs are on right now and they're really dope
― frogbs, Wednesday, 3 May 2017 20:37 (seven years ago) link
it seems like the NHL playoffs are pretty exciting too, but punctuated by some dude trying to murder sid crosby and concussing the shit out of him =|
― officer sonny bonds, lytton pd (mayor jingleberries), Wednesday, 3 May 2017 20:41 (seven years ago) link
High school football is about as popular right now as it has ever been among non-school-aged adults. The breathless local media attention it gets is a big pull for impressionable teenagers, who all dream of fame and greatness.
― a little too mature to be cute (Aimless), Thursday, 4 May 2017 01:38 (seven years ago) link
so you're saying certain portions of oregon are into high school football? i'm gonna have to check that with frederik
― mookieproof, Thursday, 4 May 2017 01:44 (seven years ago) link
https://www.theplayerstribune.com/jermichael-finley-packers-injury-retirement/
sadly parts of this are all-too-familiar
Then one day, I went out to my truck to go for a drive, and I had to go back inside because I forgot my keys. That started happening a lot. It got to the point where sometimes I’d have to go back inside two or three times because I had forgotten my keys, then my phone, then my wallet. Some days, when I’d go to pick my kids up from school, I’d get halfway to their school and have to turn around because I forgot to put the car seat in the car, even after Courtney had reminded me.One night, we went out to dinner, and after I paid the bill and walked out of the restaurant, Courtney came up behind me with my wallet in her hand, waving it at me. I guess I had left it on the table.“This is the third time I’ve had to pick up after you today,” she said. “What’s going on?”
One night, we went out to dinner, and after I paid the bill and walked out of the restaurant, Courtney came up behind me with my wallet in her hand, waving it at me. I guess I had left it on the table.
“This is the third time I’ve had to pick up after you today,” she said. “What’s going on?”
― frogbs, Tuesday, 30 May 2017 15:33 (seven years ago) link
Tough read
― Jeff, Tuesday, 30 May 2017 16:21 (seven years ago) link
Also unfortunate that to stimulate his brain he had to get into coaching... football... to kids, including his own. Have a lot of sympathy for the guy, but by introducing kids to football as it is today, this will only continue.
― Jeff, Tuesday, 30 May 2017 16:45 (seven years ago) link
It's more than likely football will continue in *some* form.
― Ned Raggett, Tuesday, 30 May 2017 16:48 (seven years ago) link
Yeah, especially since boxing still exists, albeit far from its mainstream glory days.
― Do the Leee Roll! (Leee), Tuesday, 30 May 2017 17:53 (seven years ago) link
Not only does boxing still exist, MMA/UFC has been more-or-less mainstreamed and it's 10x as brutal.
― Old Lynch's Sex Paragraph (Phil D.), Tuesday, 30 May 2017 18:05 (seven years ago) link
I wonder if America could ever get on board with flag football as a spectator sport. obviously certain types of guys would no longer have careers but the NFL is becoming more of a passing league every year anyway and you'd still be able to preserve most of the fun of that part of the game (ie. Beckham catches, Aaron Rodgers bombs).
― evol j, Tuesday, 30 May 2017 18:08 (seven years ago) link
Insensitivity to *other people* being brutalized is a known human trait.
― A is for (Aimless), Tuesday, 30 May 2017 18:24 (seven years ago) link
yeah this was kinda my thought too. ultimately this always seems to be the case doesn't it? love for football trumps everything.
also I was wondering - does this sort of therapy produce long-term results or does it just delay the inevitable? would be great if they could actually get to stopping the progression or reversing the damage but I'm a little skeptical if that's possible.
― frogbs, Tuesday, 30 May 2017 18:41 (seven years ago) link
Man, these comments from Warren Sapp will stick with you https://t.co/LjAgNxGius pic.twitter.com/fHMfM25sJY— Lachlan Markay (@lachlan) June 21, 2017
― down that brown path (Spottie), Wednesday, 21 June 2017 16:59 (six years ago) link
fuckin sad
― Chocolate-covered gummy bears? Not ruling those lil' guys out. (ulysses), Wednesday, 21 June 2017 18:51 (six years ago) link
click through and watch the video, though, because Warren Sapp is still wonderful
― El Tomboto, Friday, 23 June 2017 03:12 (six years ago) link
https://www.sbnation.com/a/17776-football
― Old Neon, Friday, 7 July 2017 03:32 (six years ago) link
yeah, i loved that
― Chocolate-covered gummy bears? Not ruling those lil' guys out. (ulysses), Friday, 7 July 2017 03:34 (six years ago) link
Tim Tebow CFL Chronicles was better imho
Sophomore jinx
― El Tomboto, Friday, 7 July 2017 04:16 (six years ago) link
Tom Cotton is the next President.
― Jeff, Friday, 7 July 2017 09:41 (six years ago) link
big fan of jon bois, glad we have at least one avant garde sportswriter out there
― ciderpress, Friday, 7 July 2017 13:34 (six years ago) link
yeah this is bar none the strangest football article I've ever read
― frogbs, Friday, 7 July 2017 13:40 (six years ago) link
TTCFLC is more traditional, linear, first person storytelling; this new one feels like interactive fiction on rails to me, if that makes any sense
https://www.sbnation.com/2014/8/18/5998715/the-tim-tebow-cfl-chronicles
― El Tomboto, Friday, 7 July 2017 15:40 (six years ago) link
https://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2017/07/25/sports/football/nfl-cte.html
"A neuropathologist has examined the brains of 111 N.F.L. players — and 110 were found to have C.T.E., the degenerative disease linked to repeated blows to the head."
― Old Lynch's Sex Paragraph (Phil D.), Tuesday, 25 July 2017 15:29 (six years ago) link
So the other guy was a kicker I assume?
― El Tomboto, Tuesday, 25 July 2017 15:31 (six years ago) link
^ post of the day
― ein Sexmonster (Jimmy The Mod Awaits The Return Of His Beloved), Tuesday, 25 July 2017 15:31 (six years ago) link
maybe one of Brett Favre's backups
― frogbs, Tuesday, 25 July 2017 15:32 (six years ago) link
Presumably, yeah. The 100 include one punter and one placekicker. 44 linemen, 7 QBs.
― Old Lynch's Sex Paragraph (Phil D.), Tuesday, 25 July 2017 15:33 (six years ago) link
*110
http://www.espn.com/nfl/story/_/id/20170808/baltimore-ravens-offensive-lineman-john-urschel-retires-abruptly
― 𝔠𝔞𝔢𝔨 (caek), Thursday, 27 July 2017 15:52 (six years ago) link
must have been a really tough choice, luckily it sounds like he has plenty to fall back on.
In January, Urschel told HBO's "Real Sports With Bryant Gumbel" that his passion for playing football outweighs the risks of suffering head trauma.
― Spottie, Thursday, 27 July 2017 17:21 (six years ago) link
http://deadspin.com/super-bowl-winning-qb-jim-plunkett-my-life-sucks-1797547445
tbf, i suspect a lot of 69-year-olds need a painkiller to play golf. life expectancy for american men was 64.4 when plunkett was born
― mookieproof, Friday, 4 August 2017 20:32 (six years ago) link
https://www.washingtonpost.com/sports/highschools/the-leading-edge-of-a-much-larger-iceberg-new-jersey-high-school-disbands-football-team/2017/08/22/e13b6516-836e-11e7-82a4-920da1aeb507_story.html?hpid=hp_hp-more-top-stories-2_ams-newjersey500am-1%3Ahomepage%2Fstory&utm_term=.702efbabf4cc
― .oO (silby), Wednesday, 23 August 2017 15:30 (six years ago) link
New Jersey, eh? When the trend reaches high schools in Texas, we will know that American football is in its final death throes.
― A is for (Aimless), Wednesday, 23 August 2017 23:26 (six years ago) link
FWIW, the stat/graph with the article indicates that Texas's percentage change is barely there (as opposed to growing or dropping notably).
― Ned Raggett, Wednesday, 23 August 2017 23:30 (six years ago) link
― A is for (Aimless), Wednesday, August 23, 2017 4:26 PM (forty minutes ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink
Sure, but I think the map lends at least some support to the idea that youth football is becoming a more regional thing, as predicted upthread
― .oO (silby), Thursday, 24 August 2017 00:07 (six years ago) link
Obviously a wealthy, heavily-Asian- and Indian-American town in New Jersey isn't home to your median high school football team though.
― .oO (silby), Thursday, 24 August 2017 00:09 (six years ago) link
it's not, but every trend begins with outliers
hang on while I think of another pithy post that is yet more obvious and dumb
― Tarly Noise (El Tomboto), Thursday, 24 August 2017 00:26 (six years ago) link
"we must impeach to save the union"
― Chocolate-covered gummy bears? Not ruling those lil' guys out. (ulysses), Thursday, 24 August 2017 15:47 (six years ago) link
https://www.nytimes.com/2017/08/30/sports/espn-ed-cunningham-football-concussions.html
“We come back from the break and that guy with the broken leg is gone, and it’s just third-and-8”
― Chocolate-covered gummy bears? Not ruling those lil' guys out. (ulysses), Thursday, 31 August 2017 00:10 (six years ago) link
And changes to substantially soften the exterior of football helmets, into something more like memory foam, to reduce the weight and its utility as a weapon.
I used to half-joke they should go back to leather helmets. Personally, at this point, I'd be fine with reduced contact. Body sensors, something closer to flag football. Bigger emphasis on speed and offense, but a knee down ends a play. More pushing; less hitting.
― beard papa, Thursday, 31 August 2017 15:38 (six years ago) link