This is why between 2012 and 2015 the Department of Defense paid 18 NFL teams a total of more than $5.6 million for marketing and advertising, including flying military bombers over stadiums at taxpayers’ expense.
He gets really close here to making a point.
― AdamVania (Adam Bruneau), Saturday, 2 January 2016 00:36 (eight years ago) link
On the home stretch of not watching a single minute of football (either nfl or college) all season for maybe the first time in my life. Though the freedom has gone to my head and I've given up regular season nba as well.
― ryan, Saturday, 2 January 2016 04:46 (eight years ago) link
youve gone too far
― ecclesiastes nutz (m bison), Saturday, 2 January 2016 05:16 (eight years ago) link
Horrible decision on that last part
― Spottie, Saturday, 2 January 2016 05:23 (eight years ago) link
the media: dude check out all these brain injuries and fucked up stuff about footballryan: oh wow thats terrible i guess i better stop watching sportssteph curry: *is literally christ*ryan: i sure hope i didnt miss christ returningme: *points to a sign i made that says "YA U DID DUDE"*
― ecclesiastes nutz (m bison), Saturday, 2 January 2016 06:06 (eight years ago) link
lol. i dunno it's like i needed a break. also pre-xmas nba is very skippable in my experience.
― ryan, Saturday, 2 January 2016 16:31 (eight years ago) link
then i guess you missed the warriors streak eh
― Spottie, Sunday, 3 January 2016 09:05 (eight years ago) link
nah luke walton becoming a jedi was fun but all bb played before the super bowl is preseason
― Larry Elleison (rogermexico.), Sunday, 3 January 2016 17:52 (eight years ago) link
luke walton is actually phil jackson's child imo
― nomar, Sunday, 3 January 2016 17:55 (eight years ago) link
lol i'm thiiiis close to being arsed to shop that
― Larry Elleison (rogermexico.), Sunday, 3 January 2016 17:59 (eight years ago) link
The only football I've watched since that shit show of a Super Bowl last year has been games that just happened to be on in various drinking and eating locations that I was spending time drinking and eating in. And GIFs that popped up on Deadspin. Quitting the NFL = way easier than cigarettes or beer, no surprise there
Anyway prepare to be sad: https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/dc-sports-bog/wp/2016/01/19/former-nfl-receiver-antwaan-randle-el-regrets-ever-playing-football/
Randle El is not naive to the profitability of the sport or the impact it has on society, but with the concussion and life-long injury issues getting more attention than ever before, the nine-year veteran thinks the end may be near.“Right now, I wouldn’t be surprised if football isn’t around in 20, 25 years.”
“Right now, I wouldn’t be surprised if football isn’t around in 20, 25 years.”
Me neither, Antwaan. I hope they can figure out how to help these guys get better. I mean stem cells and nanoscale whatsits, right? There have to be some prospects for treatment somewhere in the pipeline?
― service desk hardman (El Tomboto), Wednesday, 20 January 2016 03:18 (eight years ago) link
OTOH I guess if a reliable program of treatment were developed it would just become an excuse to let people keep hitting each other with the force of highway collisions
― service desk hardman (El Tomboto), Wednesday, 20 January 2016 03:21 (eight years ago) link
https://pbs.twimg.com/media/CZHkaFTWYAEYn50.jpg
― mookieproof, Wednesday, 20 January 2016 03:53 (eight years ago) link
https://www.washingtonpost.com/sports/school-said-son-suffered-a-concussion-parents-sued-to-get-him-back-on-field/2016/01/18/8a15c018-bdec-11e5-9443-7074c3645405_story.html
this story linked in the randle el one is insane.
― nomar, Wednesday, 20 January 2016 04:07 (eight years ago) link
Kerasidis explained that there are two schools of thought: (1) A child’s brain is still developing and any trauma can be especially harmful; (2) children are smaller, slower and perhaps unable to deliver as much force in their collisions as older players.
how are these mutually exclusive?
― lute bro (brimstead), Wednesday, 20 January 2016 06:10 (eight years ago) link
in my experience playing football from junior high through high school im pretty sure i saw dozens of concussions (and was dazed myself a number of times) but i can only remember 1 or 2 actually being diagnosed as such.
― ryan, Wednesday, 20 January 2016 18:01 (eight years ago) link
point being: even if medically diagnosed concussions arent happening regularly that doesnt mean that it's a safe sport for children (or anyone).
― ryan, Wednesday, 20 January 2016 18:02 (eight years ago) link
also: i used to play full tackle football minus any pads or helmets with buddies all the time, and it was much much safer (and less terrifying). and more fun.
― ryan, Wednesday, 20 January 2016 18:03 (eight years ago) link
― ryan, Wednesday, January 20, 2016
long-term memory loss :(
― Larry Elleison (rogermexico.), Thursday, 21 January 2016 17:47 (eight years ago) link
"good news guys it's not a concussion just a grade 2 rung bell"
― Larry Elleison (rogermexico.), Thursday, 21 January 2016 17:48 (eight years ago) link
hah, that's pretty much the way it was. concussions were kind of a laughing matter back then, people would talk about dumb things they did because they were concussed much like people talk about being drunk. when you get one though it's scary...like "wait, are we whites or blues today, why can't I remember??" scary - this was not all that long ago
― frogbs, Thursday, 21 January 2016 18:54 (eight years ago) link
As a bona fide nerd weakling the idea of laughing off a traumatic brain injury is terrifying to me.
― pizza rolls are a food that exists (silby), Friday, 22 January 2016 00:00 (eight years ago) link
well sure when you call it a traumatic brain injury it sounds scary
― Larry Elleison (rogermexico.), Saturday, 23 January 2016 03:44 (eight years ago) link
that's why the tough guys call it "getting your bell rung".
― a little too mature to be cute (Aimless), Saturday, 23 January 2016 04:50 (eight years ago) link
concerned citizen: um your skin is literally flayed and i can see all your musclesfootball bro: oh i just got my sausage casing peeledcc: also i am a doctor and u have lupusfb: just gotta little jam on my facecc: plz stop dyingfb: just getting my toe tag sized
― ecclesiastes nutz (m bison), Saturday, 23 January 2016 05:01 (eight years ago) link
t/s "getting your bell rung" or "getting the wind knocked out of you". i haven't played enough contact sports to know the difference.
― lute bro (brimstead), Saturday, 23 January 2016 05:21 (eight years ago) link
I know the QB of my high school team got his bell rung (i.e. concussion) a few times. I remember playing a JV game as a sophmore and ole' Hank got clobbered and the dude was acting stoned to the bone on the side line not knowing where he was even at. Being that Randle El played at my college IU and Dave Duerson was from my home town and it makes me sad about football. That said, the only time I think I might have gotten a concussion playing sports as a kid was in wrestling as I got suplexed in an AAU match by a guy that ended up national champ and later a collegiate champ as a teenager. I just remember being spaced the fxck out and having a splitting headache for a couple days.Getting the wind knocked out of you is a totally different thing really, as you basically slam to the surface and have all of the wind in your lungs expelled in a single violent hit. It's pretty scary but goes away in a minute.
― earlnash, Saturday, 23 January 2016 05:37 (eight years ago) link
ah ok
― lute bro (brimstead), Saturday, 23 January 2016 05:51 (eight years ago) link
in my football career i got:
1) the wind knocked out of me (the most terrifying)2) my "bell rung" (dazed and stars and loss of equilibrium, not sure if actual concussion lol football) 3) racked right in the balls since i brilliantly decided not to wear a cup for that game <--this is by far the worst
a good friend did have a diagnosed concussion one day, and i remember him approaching me on the sideline and basically cheerfully saying something that made no sense at all. i had to keep him from going back in the game since he thought he was fine. he came to school the next day (thursday night game) and said his parents had to wake him up once an hour, which i guess is some kind of stand procedure for concussions.
― ryan, Saturday, 23 January 2016 17:01 (eight years ago) link
a good friend did have a diagnosed concussion one day, and i remember him approaching me on the sideline and basically cheerfully saying something that made no sense at all....
― ryan, Saturday, January 23, 2016
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GPRscxQZs8E
― Larry Elleison (rogermexico.), Saturday, 23 January 2016 23:26 (eight years ago) link
yeah getting the wind knocked out is much less serious but a whole lot scarier while it's happening
― Larry Elleison (rogermexico.), Saturday, 23 January 2016 23:27 (eight years ago) link
i've had the wind knocked out of me too many times to count. i just thought that was part of being young. never had a concussion, but also never played anything but pick up football
― rap is dad (it's a boy!), Saturday, 23 January 2016 23:51 (eight years ago) link
my grandpa would never watch the nfl: "they're all just trying to hurt each other" dude had a point
― rap is dad (it's a boy!), Saturday, 23 January 2016 23:52 (eight years ago) link
― ecclesiastes nutz (m bison), Saturday, January 23, 2016 5:01 AM (Yesterday)
lol
― smoothy doles it (nakhchivan), Sunday, 24 January 2016 23:44 (eight years ago) link
I was thinking earlier this year that if the Pats got to the SB again it would actually be bad for the NFL, because lol cheaters, but now they lost by a missed FG to some juicers, so really, why would anybody watch this? If the Panthers lose, I mean. Cam Newton is, unfortunately for my argument, a joy.
― service desk hardman (El Tomboto), Monday, 25 January 2016 01:05 (eight years ago) link
Oh wow I can't believe this hasn't been linked from this thread yet
http://bleacherreport.com/articles/2305112-roger-goodells-a-christmas-carol
The Davis specter shrugged. "Suit yourself, shortcake. But keep in mind it's not just your soul that's at stake. Professional football itself is in jeopardy."Goodell scoffed. "You know better than that, Al. The sport is healthier than ever, because I give fans and advertisers exactly what they want.""If you say so, rainbow. It's no skin off my back, since I don't have a skin or a back anymore. The first ghost will get here when he gets here." With that, the Davis ghost vanished from sight.As the final wisp of his visage faded, Goodell heard a peculiar bell. It was not a Christmas bell, nor a funerary church bell, nor the cathedral bells he could hear peeling each hour over the Manhattan street noise.It was a boxing ring bell, Goodell realized as sleep overtook him.
Goodell scoffed. "You know better than that, Al. The sport is healthier than ever, because I give fans and advertisers exactly what they want."
"If you say so, rainbow. It's no skin off my back, since I don't have a skin or a back anymore. The first ghost will get here when he gets here." With that, the Davis ghost vanished from sight.
As the final wisp of his visage faded, Goodell heard a peculiar bell. It was not a Christmas bell, nor a funerary church bell, nor the cathedral bells he could hear peeling each hour over the Manhattan street noise.
It was a boxing ring bell, Goodell realized as sleep overtook him.
― service desk hardman (El Tomboto), Monday, 25 January 2016 01:14 (eight years ago) link
peeling pealing
>=( @ bleacher report.
― Sofialo Ren (Leee), Monday, 25 January 2016 19:04 (eight years ago) link
The only reason he works there is because FO doesn't pay the mortgage, Sports On Earth went half-Grantland, ESPN already hired Barnwell and SBnation is just stupid I guess
― service desk hardman (El Tomboto), Monday, 25 January 2016 21:22 (eight years ago) link
http://www.nytimes.com/2016/01/27/sports/football/former-giants-safety-tyler-sash-found-to-have-cte.html?smid=tw-share&_r=0
― Kiarostami bag (milo z), Wednesday, 27 January 2016 02:25 (eight years ago) link
I realize SF denizens hating on shitty public displays isn't like a big surprise or any kind of indicator of the imminent demise of the sport but this is mildly entertaining
http://deadspin.com/san-franciscans-have-declared-war-on-super-bowl-sculptu-1756345681
and I also liked this comment:
You can glean this from the TV advertising, but it really stood out to me when the NFL draft was held last year not far from where I live in Chicago: the NFL has this thing where they can’t just smile and acknowledge that they’re the most popular sport in America; they have to have MORE. It’s like they want to bully you into getting hyped for football, like they want to create this sense that you’re not really participating in the culture if you’re not glued to your TV every Sunday*. Is my walk to work disrupted and my coworkers’ commute messed up by the weeklong unavailability of every parking lot near my office? THE NFL DRAFT IS COMING TO CHICAGO LOVE IT LOVE IT LOVE IT. Why wouldn’t arguably the most beautiful city in America (I went to high school in SF) welcome dropping garish SUPERBOWL 50 sculptures all over the place? IT’S FOOTBAAAWWWL.
― all official correspondence concerning "chili cook-off" (El Tomboto), Monday, 1 February 2016 17:07 (eight years ago) link
Dude shouldn't drive to work anyway if he works in the loop. Ban cars.
― Jeff, Monday, 1 February 2016 17:24 (eight years ago) link
OMG FUCK THIS STUPID SPORTSBALL POLICE STATE BULLSHIT
had to vent
― Οὖτις, Monday, 1 February 2016 17:26 (eight years ago) link
there are metal detectors and cops in riot gear all over the place near my office - streets are blocked, public buildings are only accessible through security checkpoints, traffic/public transit is re-routed, ugly temporary statues everywhere... I hate pro-sports in general but making it unavoidable like this should be against the law imo.
― Οὖτις, Monday, 1 February 2016 17:28 (eight years ago) link
I mean the game is in FUCKING SANTA CLARA
gawd if they schedule a super bowl for Seattle ever I'm taking a goddamn vacation
― petulant dick master (silby), Monday, 1 February 2016 17:32 (eight years ago) link
there are drones/copters flying over head scanning for "background radiation"
O RLY
― Οὖτις, Monday, 1 February 2016 17:34 (eight years ago) link
When Dallas-Ft Worth had the Super Bowl I flew to NY for four days. Even better, it was actually warmer in NY than Texas that weekend.
― Kiarostami bag (milo z), Monday, 1 February 2016 17:35 (eight years ago) link
just deigned to check and fortunately Seattle is not in the running through at least 2020
― petulant dick master (silby), Monday, 1 February 2016 17:38 (eight years ago) link
i still follow the NFL from the outside looking in with regards to stats and standings a lot, but even with that limited exposure stories like the Ken Stabler one continue to give me pause. also the Stabler story being the top sidebar story on ESPN, right next to a front page story about the #1 college recruit choosing to go to Michigan and me wondering if we're gonna see a similar story about him in thirty years.
― nomar, Wednesday, 3 February 2016 18:25 (eight years ago) link
I didn't realize SBNation runs the "Meet The Bag Man" story every year on NCAA signing day.
― i was hoping the shitlords would not take this quietly (El Tomboto), Wednesday, 3 February 2016 21:06 (eight years ago) link