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Strange
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posted: 2014-01-30 18:36:46 (ID: 100022593) Report Abuse |
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Meitheisman wrote:
Strange wrote:
Just watched about 20 min (so far) of the League of denial video. I obviously feel sad for the players who have serious brain damage as a result from playing in the NFL. Having said that, I dont feel any sorrow to players who join the NFL with the knowledge that they might get brain damage or sustain any life lasting injury. I have zero sorrow. They join with this knowledge and ignore it to make millions of dollars playing a damn game. I slave my ass off for table scraps in comparison, and dont expect anyone to feel sorry for me. Human greed and a desire for prominence and recognition , I feel, plays a huge part in this. The main issue to me is not with NFL players but with the literally thousands and thousands of football players who never made a dime and who might suffer serious consequences nonetheless. In League of Denial they talk about a high school kid who's brain showed serious advanced sign of ALS, it's for these people (and their loved ones) that I really feel sorry. I honestly dont feel that sorry for them either. Anyone who knowingly does things that has a high chance of injury get no sympathy from me. Its the people who played football before all the knowledge of what it does to your brain, its those people I feel bad for. |
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Meitheisman
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posted: 2014-01-30 18:50:56 (ID: 100022594) Report Abuse |
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Xeno72 wrote:
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I guess that's just it. I had no desire to be raised in a bubble where a book, or a video or somebody told me about what it took to learn some lessons of life I learned strictly through playing a rough and tough game.
That's all well and good but there are other ways to learn these things, ways that don't put your mental health at risk. Success always comes with some kind of price. I survived and that is a good thing, and it is horrible that others didn't, this truly sucks. I'm a risk taker, and yes, take chances. But the lessons learned I don't think can be spoken eloquently enough to convince sometimes. Quick question, do you believe that people from countries where football isn't played can't learn the same thing? |
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Xeno72
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posted: 2014-01-30 19:00:14 (ID: 100022596) Report Abuse |
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Meitheisman wrote:
Not at all Xeno72 wrote:
Meitheisman wrote:
I guess that's just it. I had no desire to be raised in a bubble where a book, or a video or somebody told me about what it took to learn some lessons of life I learned strictly through playing a rough and tough game.
That's all well and good but there are other ways to learn these things, ways that don't put your mental health at risk. Success always comes with some kind of price. I survived and that is a good thing, and it is horrible that others didn't, this truly sucks. I'm a risk taker, and yes, take chances. But the lessons learned I don't think can be spoken eloquently enough to convince sometimes. Quick question, do you believe that people from countries where football isn't played can't learn the same thing?  I guess I'm one of those people that is so extremely hard-headed, that I have to jump in a bonfire before I realize fire burns and hurts   |
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