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In reply to the discussion: While watching Nova on HS football, IMO it's time to scrap football or change it to a non contact [View all]ileus
(15,396 posts)87. cycling is in no way boring...
a good road race is always exciting. I love to watch and play golf, and who doesn't love Bball or Baseball?
Speed skating every four years I catch a race or two.
Gymnastics every four years or when my girl took it when she was 7-9.
I never said everyone found soccer boring, I said I find soccer boring. I try an try and watch it, but IMHO kind of like hockey all the sport (excitement) is taken out by rules that don't make sense.
Motocross is pretty exciting but I'm not sure it's really a non-contact sport.
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Oops I just read what I'd posted...crap I didn't mean to make it sound like all of America found it boring, but that's how it reads. I apologize I can see now how you come to the conclusion of my ignorance on the subject now.
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While watching Nova on HS football, IMO it's time to scrap football or change it to a non contact [View all]
CK_John
Aug 2013
OP
Our daughter is an athletic trainer working in a middle and high school. It's football season!
phylny
Aug 2013
#1
For general out-and-out cruelty, your post ranks right up there with the average
HardTimes99
Aug 2013
#10
Your cruelty (cloaked as it is in quasi-Libertarian rationale) deserves harsh censure. Consider
HardTimes99
Aug 2013
#12
Extending that logic would mean that motorcycle helmet laws and seat belt laws would be dropped.
hedgehog
Aug 2013
#95
Wow, so if any athlete has died in any activity that activity should be banned? Brilliant logic! n-t
Logical
Aug 2013
#20
Way to create a strawman (speaking of 'brilliant logic'). My post was in reply to
HardTimes99
Aug 2013
#23
I thought it was used to denigrate Libertarians, which is how I intended it. I consider myself
HardTimes99
Aug 2013
#35
I'm actually leaving a sub-thread intact where pintobean and I discuss what
HardTimes99
Aug 2013
#41
I gotta think there's a middle ground between banning football altogether and a mad max free for all
Kber
Aug 2013
#30
I played all the way from childhood in the parks to a year in college honestly I enjoyed it yes
Arcanetrance
Aug 2013
#13
I loved playing football. It was all I really had in high school that helped me fit in. I still...
Logical
Aug 2013
#21
Todays football is nothing like 10yrs ago. These are football factories. Players are 30% bigger,
CK_John
Aug 2013
#22
There are 29,000 high schools in America, 14,000 of them have football teams. Also....
Logical
Aug 2013
#42
There are high schools without football or sports programs?? Where might that be.
madinmaryland
Aug 2013
#31
Ask your pediatrician or neurologist how he or she feels about scholastic contact sports. I think
HardTimes99
Aug 2013
#46
Sorry, I don't think school should be a place where children risk death, whether
HardTimes99
Aug 2013
#48
Your post is one of the reasons I so enjoy and appreciate DU, as it often forces me out of
HardTimes99
Aug 2013
#84
During my last protracted bout of unemployment before this current one, I investigated becoming
HardTimes99
Aug 2013
#86
One can, however, have cheerleading without acrobatics. One cannot have football without contact.
WinkyDink
Aug 2013
#75
The day my son dropped soccer was a day Mr. Brickbat and I (privately) celebrated.
Brickbat
Aug 2013
#72
Many, if not most, non-contact sports are far from "boring." Baskeball, skiing, gymnastics, golf,
WinkyDink
Aug 2013
#76
I'm simply pointing that life in general, even activities we take for granted...
Purrfessor
Aug 2013
#81