***Official*** I'm done watching the NFL (1 Viewer)

[Ministry of Pain]

I have no problem with grown men who get paid millions of dollars beating the crap out of each other. What Goodell is doing though has a trickle down all the way to pop Warner. Seeing children get paralyzed from a freaking game is unacceptable. The NFL is setting the example and the Chachinator applauds what it and especially Goodell is doing.

Kids are getting paralyzed from pop warner football? 110/125/145 pop warner leagues, those kids are just landing in wheel chairs all the time? I have never seen that type of evidence but I'm interested if there is some evidence.

 

[Ministry of Pain]

If its time to move on its time to move on, write a book, learn an instrument, get out there and do stuff. SOme would call that maturity and its each persons individual deal. The main issue I have with the NFL (and MLB among others) is the lack of truly transparent drug testing. Obviously there are a lot more players that are on some illegal PED and are not being caught. But who knows how many?

Agreed

 

[teamramrod]

Off season posters to avoid/exploit:

MOP

Dude, that's my quarterback you are talking about......MOP can form a sentence and even a few paragraphs without breaking 15 rules of grammer. One of the more thoughtful contributors out there who has not made it on staff yet.

Toss out your positional breakdowns for 2013 and lets compare.

Peace

 

[habsfan]

Not a fan of Thursday night games and "fantasy inconvenience" is only a part of it. It's one game but also a step on the slippery slope towards having a game on every night of the week. I like the culture of the NFL as a once a week spectacle/sport/social event and it's being diluted. I like that football is not like hockey or baseball where you can watch "crappy team x" playing "crappy team y" on a Wednesday night.

 

[HellToupee]

I have no problem with grown men who get paid millions of dollars beating the crap out of each other. What Goodell is doing though has a trickle down all the way to pop Warner. Seeing children get paralyzed from a freaking game is unacceptable. The NFL is setting the example and the Chachinator applauds what it and especially Goodell is doing.

Kids are getting paralyzed from pop warner football? 110/125/145 pop warner leagues, those kids are just landing in wheel chairs all the time? I have never seen that type of evidence but I'm interested if there is some evidence.

Pop Warner cheerleading is more dangerous the football

 

[HellToupee]

This is Goodell trying to put lipstick on a pig & its all about trying to look like he cares. Its about the lawsuit.

 

[zilladog]

This is Goodell trying to put lipstick on a pig & its all about trying to look like he cares. Its about the lawsuit.

So? The man was hired to protect the interests of the league. How would you do his job if you had it?Would you take the countless millions the owners are throwing at you and say "screw 'em, I wanna see some skulls get crushed!"

 

[Johnny Rock]

I much prefer to watch Antoine Winfield actually "tackle" a guy with his arms wrapped and shoulder in there, using leverage. I've never relished the forearm-shiver-attempt-to-blow-em-up way of "tackling." More dangerous and it generally gets poor results with runners bouncing off and going for big gainers. Pisses me off.

 

[HellToupee]

This is Goodell trying to put lipstick on a pig & its all about trying to look like he cares. Its about the lawsuit.

So? The man was hired to protect the interests of the league. How would you do his job if you had it?Would you take the countless millions the owners are throwing at you and say "screw 'em, I wanna see some skulls get crushed!"

Problem is I don't think the actions are genuine.

 

[Donnybrook]

I am not a fan of Goodell but I can't assign him that much blame when 31 teams voted in favor of the rule. I think this rule is on par with the horse coller rule. Defensive players have accepted it and adjusted their play. Running backs will have do the same.

 

[GregR]

I quit watching when they legalized the forward pass. Ruined the game. Now I just hang out on fantasy boards and complain about it.

I hate the forward pass as well. Switched to rugby a long time ago.

Serious question: why did so many people die in the early years of football, yet not in rugby? I know little about either rugby or early football.

Paraphrased from Tom Bennett's book The Pro Style: The Complete Guide to Understanding National Football League Strategy, via Wikipedia:"One of the major problems was the popularity of mass-formations like the flying wedge, in which a large number of offensive players charged as a unit against a similarly arranged defense. The resultant collisions often led to serious injuries and sometimes even death."

 

[Mentos]

I quit watching when they legalized the forward pass. Ruined the game. Now I just hang out on fantasy boards and complain about it.

I hate the forward pass as well. Switched to rugby a long time ago.

Serious question: why did so many people die in the early years of football, yet not in rugby? I know little about either rugby or early football.

Paraphrased from Tom Bennett's book The Pro Style: The Complete Guide to Understanding National Football League Strategy, via Wikipedia:"One of the major problems was the popularity of mass-formations like the flying wedge, in which a large number of offensive players charged as a unit against a similarly arranged defense. The resultant collisions often led to serious injuries and sometimes even death."

That is a great book. It is one of my five favorite football books. Buy it if you do not already have it.

 

[beef]

Stinks like dirty attenion hor sex in here.

 

[Vision6]

The evil people running the nfl know damn well they got us by the balls. No different than drug dealers and dope fiends. We'll all be back in the fall to get our fix.

 

[Ministry of Pain]

I have no problem with grown men who get paid millions of dollars beating the crap out of each other. What Goodell is doing though has a trickle down all the way to pop Warner. Seeing children get paralyzed from a freaking game is unacceptable. The NFL is setting the example and the Chachinator applauds what it and especially Goodell is doing.

Kids are getting paralyzed from pop warner football? 110/125/145 pop warner leagues, those kids are just landing in wheel chairs all the time? I have never seen that type of evidence but I'm interested if there is some evidence.

Pop Warner cheerleading is more dangerous the football

100% true. Other sports with a lot of violence tend to have weight restrictions. When football first started in the 19th Century, I doubt they ever envisioned 300 lb linemen running around the field. In 1920 the avg Lineman in the NFL was 6 feet and roughly 211 pounds...think about that for a minute. 60s 70s and a good chunk of the 80s the avg Lineman was about 250-260 lbs...then in the 90s after the ban of steroids in the NFL, weights flew up to over 300 lbs. Draw your own conclusions.

 

[Warrior]

Well guess what, they know what the risks are now, let the players make a choice to take that risk. Sacrifice their body for millions of dollars or DONT. Simple as that.

Couldn't agree more

 

[Warrior]

This is Goodell trying to put lipstick on a pig & its all about trying to look like he cares. Its about the lawsuit.

So? The man was hired to protect the interests of the league. How would you do his job if you had it?Would you take the countless millions the owners are throwing at you and say "screw 'em, I wanna see some skulls get crushed!"

Problem is I don't think the actions are genuine.

So? Who cares?

 

[cobalt_27]

I have no problem with grown men who get paid millions of dollars beating the crap out of each other. What Goodell is doing though has a trickle down all the way to pop Warner. Seeing children get paralyzed from a freaking game is unacceptable. The NFL is setting the example and the Chachinator applauds what it and especially Goodell is doing.

Kids are getting paralyzed from pop warner football? 110/125/145 pop warner leagues, those kids are just landing in wheel chairs all the time? I have never seen that type of evidence but I'm interested if there is some evidence.

Pop Warner cheerleading is more dangerous the football

100% true. Other sports with a lot of violence tend to have weight restrictions. When football first started in the 19th Century, I doubt they ever envisioned 300 lb linemen running around the field. In 1920 the avg Lineman in the NFL was 6 feet and roughly 211 pounds...think about that for a minute. 60s 70s and a good chunk of the 80s the avg Lineman was about 250-260 lbs...then in the 90s after the ban of steroids in the NFL, weights flew up to over 300 lbs. Draw your own conclusions.

Will you be posting updates of your observations during the season you're not watching?

 

[Chachi]

David Edwards, who was paralyzed during a 2003 high school football playoff game and whose injury was fictionalized in the TV show "Friday Night Lights," died Wednesday. He was 20.

Edwards, who had been stricken with pneumonia since late last year, stopped breathing Monday night and slipped into a coma, his grandfather said.

Edwards would have turned 21 on Saturday.

Edwards, a junior defensive back at San Antonio Madison, had the fourth vertabra of his neck snapped when he collided with an Austin Westlake wide receiver when both were reaching for a pass during a November 2003 playoff game.

Director and producer Peter Berg was attending the game. In the pilot episode of Berg's TV show "Friday Night Lights," a high school football player breaks his neck and is paralyzed while trying to make a tackle.

Read more: http://www.foxnews.com/story/0,2933,333538,00.html#ixzz2OTpVylwK

Chris Norton inspires people by standing. He can't walk without assistance, but on Nov. 13 he will win the America's Choice Honor for the CBS Courage in Sports award.

Norton began October 16, 2010 as a normal college student with no chance of winning the award, given to individuals who overcome obstacles to achieve their sports dreams. He was a special teams player for Luther College, a Division III school in Decorah, Iowa. In the third quarter he was covering the kickoff, running down the Luther College sidelines. His family had a great view to watch him make the tackle. The returner cut toward the middle and Chris' head got caught on the ball carrier's knee.

"You would have never known someone was hurt," Chris' father Terry said. "It wasn't an ooh-ahh tackle."

Chris didn't get up. He'd played through a 30 percent tear in his shoulder and broken nose in high school. He'd always been the type of kid coaches had to drag off the field. Now he was being carried off on a stretcher. On the same day, in the same quarter, Luther's Chris Norton and Rutgers' Eric LeGrand suffered spinal cord injuries covering kickoff returns. Both were paralyzed. Both expect to walk again.

Read More: http://sportsillustrated.cnn.com/2011/football/ncaa/11/12/chris-norton/index.html#ixzz2OTqBL0o1

Football can be a dangerous sport, but we usually figure that the serious bumps and bruises are limited to those who play for the pros.

Yesterday, though, a 13-year-old boy proved that the game has risks at every level -- CBS News reports that during a Pop Warner match-up, Donnovan Hill of Mission Viejo fractured his spine after taking a hit to the head. Doctors worry that he may face paralysis.

Hill is a star running back for a team called the Lakewood Lancers. His mother, Crystal Dixon, says that Hill is putting on a brave face as he waits to undergo surgery at Mission Hospital, and that he and the local community is praying that doctors can repair his injury.

Seriously, you have a problem with preventing these injuries? The Chachinator applauds Goodell.

 

[Leeroy Jenkins]

Which of those injuries was preventable by these new rules? The one kid hurt his head on a players knee.

 

[JamesTheScot]

I'm actually verrry close to being right there with you MoP. For me, it's everything you stated plus the dang Thursday night games all season long.

Same here. I've played FF since 1995 and I'm close to my limit when it comes to Goodell. The Thursday games, the draft going on for 4 days, London games and possibly a team, and the ####ification of the sport just sit wrong with me.

same here too.And Thur games all season suck. You need to set a line-up and make decisions way too early. And if you're married with kids, its a complete PITA to actually try to watch the game on an additional night. Not even getting into the issue with the games being kind of poor quality

Well, I'm married with kids, too.

I not too keen on how the Thursday games push up our league deadlines.

But how much of that game am I really watching were it on Sunday when every other game is on? If you're like me, you flip around. But that's not really "watching the game". It's highlight fishing. And it's almost worthless in terms of trying to evaluate players.

So, like Monday night football, I enjoy having just one game on so I can sit back and actually watch without trying to flip around to feed my stat addiction.

And with a wife and kids, I find that Sunday, only one of two days that we can actually spend time as a family doing things, isn't exactly untouchable in terms of being reserved for football viewing. Thankfully there are the replays on the NFL network.

 

[Doubtingthomas]

I'm actually verrry close to being right there with you MoP. For me, it's everything you stated plus the dang Thursday night games all season long.

Same here. I've played FF since 1995 and I'm close to my limit when it comes to Goodell. The Thursday games, the draft going on for 4 days, London games and possibly a team, and the ####ification of the sport just sit wrong with me.

same here too.And Thur games all season suck. You need to set a line-up and make decisions way too early. And if you're married with kids, its a complete PITA to actually try to watch the game on an additional night. Not even getting into the issue with the games being kind of poor quality

Well, I'm married with kids, too. I not too keen on how the Thursday games push up our league deadlines. But how much of that game am I really watching were it on Sunday when every other game is on? If you're like me, you flip around. But that's not really "watching the game". It's highlight fishing. And it's almost worthless in terms of trying to evaluate players. So, like Monday night football, I enjoy having just one game on so I can sit back and actually watch without trying to flip around to feed my stat addiction. And with a wife and kids, I find that Sunday, only one of two days that we can actually spend time as a family doing things, isn't exactly untouchable in terms of being reserved for football viewing. Thankfully there are the replays on the NFL network.

Change your line up requirements so u dont have to do your whole lineup. Clwars 90% of the problem.

 

[ichris]

I'm not ready to quit on football yet. But I don't watch it like I used to either.

 

[Daywalker]

The lack of stud RB's has made the game less entertaining for me. The balance is just off for my tastes. Like boxing without great heavyweights. Thing is the NFL has instituted this change whereas heavyweight boxing is just going through a prolonged mediocre cycle.

RB's are irrelevant now. Was much more entertaining when then was not the case IMO.

 

[The Comedian]

I'm right there with you MOP. Watching RB's lower their helmets was one of the few joys left in this game, and now they've taken that too.

 

[sho nuff]

I'm right there with you MOP. Watching RB's lower their helmets was one of the few joys left in this game, and now they've taken that too.

Not really.