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Related: Editorials & Other Articles, Issue Forums, Alliance Forums, Region ForumsThe NFL is more than happy to distract us with deflate-gate, wife abuse and child abuse.
People keep acting like this stuff is bad for the NFL. The NFL is happily using these "scandals" to distract people from the real scandal - playing football causes holes in the brain and makes players suicidal. Severe brain damage. The sweeping under the rug is on the same par as the tobacco industry getting away ignoring evidence that smoking causes cancer.
Just when it was starting to heat up with players filing suits, asking questions, etc. we get flooded with all these "scandals". One of the suits was settled recently with no discussion in the media.
Instead of talk about banning the sport because it is too dangerous, we are focused on some air being let out of some balls, meanwhile the multi-billion dollar business continues unabated.
We are lapping it up like sopping gravy with biscuits.
brooklynite
(94,518 posts)geek tragedy
(68,868 posts)NuclearDem
(16,184 posts)Points mostly for relegating child and spousal abuse to "distractions."
FSogol
(45,481 posts)TDale313
(7,820 posts)"Deflategate" may be insignificant. Violence that seems to surround many of the players off the field is not.
trumad
(41,692 posts)Solomon
(12,310 posts)with that gravy. lol. Even pro athletes are starting to stop their kids from playing the game. It will be interesting to see if touch football can hold the masses interest.
yeoman6987
(14,449 posts)Important and that you consider it a distraction. I don't think I have ever saw anything more shocking on DU!
upaloopa
(11,417 posts)NFL. I see people with NFL logos on their cars and wonder why. It seems weird to advertise that you like the Packers like my sister-in-law does all across the back window of her Prius.
cherokeeprogressive
(24,853 posts)What you mean WE, Kimosabe?
Some. I'll just leave that word out there.
Ban the sport? Mishaps happen in auto racing and people die instantly. Surfers get their necks broken on sandbars and reefs. Joggers get hit by cars every fucking day. Kids get killed in crosswalks. Where do you draw the line on what you think is dangerous and what you would ban in order to mitigate that danger?
LittleBlue
(10,362 posts)Are you planning to ban boxing, MMA, alcohol and smoking too? Soccer as well considering studies show that heading the ball also causes damage to the brain.
If you don't like the sport, don't play it. Simple. But you have no authority to ban it
joeybee12
(56,177 posts)Thought I couldn't.
Romeo.lima333
(1,127 posts)The2ndWheel
(7,947 posts)If some people won't let their kid play it, and that turns into nobody playing it decades from now, that's one thing. Nobody, other than people that don't like it(which isn't the same as not letting your kids play it), has ever talked about banning the sport though.
NobodyHere
(2,810 posts)You think the NFL is happy when one of their employees commit domestic or child abuse?